I need to locate myself in a physical, tactile way.
Even worse, I seem unable to locate myself on the continuum of "postdivorce adaptive styles".
The need to know it in my body, to locate myself in the world, had not been satisfied.
Why, at 20, did I locate myself on that stage as the middle-age baby boomer Heidi Holland?
Before arriving at my fieldwork site, I had carefully designed strategies for locating myself within certain social networks such that speakers would produce the code-switched styles central to my planned investigation.
I have to find a new place to ply my trade, to get lost in another place, and locate myself again.
I am happy to locate myself in the "slender overlap" of readers of Jorge Luis Borges and Jean Shepherd whom Laura Miller describes in her review of "Flying" by Eric Kraft (March 8).
"All novels, of every age, are concerned with the enigma of the self … If I locate myself outside the so-called psychological novel, that does not mean that I wish to deprive my characters of an interior life.
Whenever I returned to the city, flicking through the pages of the Mapguide would help me instantly locate myself in the New York of my memories, as well as the physical city around me.
Before going to Somalia, I spent the last year or so trying to transition to more serious work, learning photography and teaching myself how to produce a television report, locating myself — as many aspiring journalists did — strategically in the world's hot spots.
Some more recent studies have identified similarities between physical and social navigation strategies and hint that people treat the "Where am I?" (i.e. How do I identify myself in the network of physical objects?) question very similarly to the "Who am I?" (i.e. How do I locate myself in the network of social contacts?) question from a navigational point of view8,9,10,11.
