In this paper, using the imagery of the ever shifting movement of the sea, two friends attempt to demonstrate how the concepts, affects and percepts of Deleuzian inquiry can fuse and connect with the embodied method of poetic, performative writing to engage in and produce a collaborative inquiry into their intuitive, creative and ethically sensitive struggles as friends, parents and teachers.
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