I destructured in the Xingu and went to pieces. And going to pieces is risky, because once it happens there’s no going back. It means you can no longer conform to a single-minded structure, and so you’ll never go back to feeling comfortable, perhaps you won’t even go back to being coherent. You’ll find yourself dis-conformed. Before, you had been deformed by form, but once you are dis-conformed, you can transmute into multiple forms, and this is amazingly scary.

— Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum, Diane Grosklaus Whitty