Familiar with ostranenie

How do you revive your writing eyes, Writer?

Seeing the world, rather than merely recognising it, is an offer of complicating perception. Agents of estrangement can bring about ostranenie (after Russian formalist Viktor Shklovsky). Children and the child-like, animals wild and free, the stranger, the alien, the visitor, the guest; all can move us into seeing.

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