You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarks World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

It is our fourth story for the month of December 2017, Issue 135.

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our four story is titled Darkness our mother Our Mother and is by Elana Castrioani.

She is a multilingual situated nomadic subject with roots extending from the depths of Anatolia

all the way to its Mediterranean coast and beyond.

Among other things, she is a gender and geography scholar, oral storyteller,

teacher of languages, and refugee rights advocates. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in beneath ceaseless skies and eye to the telescope.

She lives in Athens, Greece. You can find her at her website, and I'm just going to spell it for you.

E-L-E-A-N-A-N-A-C-A-S-T-R-O-I-A-N-I-N-I dot Wordpress.

Come.

So my dear listener, I do hope you can sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story.

I am one of my mother's kind.

Numbers speak to us in whispers and screams.

We weave the world in complex mathematics,

and the world weaves us back keeping our sky above and our earth below,

keeping our organs inside our bodies. our The yarn of quaternions and octonions unravels. It makes a trail inside the womb. The

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