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Geographers say there are two kinds of islands. This is valuable information for
the imagination because it confirms what the imagination already knew. Nor
is it the only case where science makes mythology more concrete, and mythology makes science more vivid.
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Continental islands are accidental, derived
islands. They are separated from a continent, born of disarticulation, erosion,
fracture; they survive the absorption of what once contained them. Oceanic
islands are originary, essential islands. Some are formed from coral reefs and
display a genuine organism.
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Others emerge from underwater eruptions, bringing to the light of day a movement from the lowest depths. Some rise slowly;
some disappear and then return, leaving us no time to annex them. These two
kinds of islands, continental and originary, reveal a profound opposition
between ocean and land.
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