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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Eerie. And timely.
Termush is the foreshadowing of The Line. If you don't know what that is, you can look it up, but knowing about it might haunt you.
Termush is the foreshadowing of The Line. If you don't know what that is, you can look it up, but knowing about it might haunt you.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Classism
Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail
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dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Termush is unsettling in the way that it draws attention to hyper-individualism that is so ingrained under neoliberal capitalism. The reactions of both the guests and the management at Termush feel so realistic and reminiscent of responses to crises we see contemporarily.
“Everything in Termush has begun to grow inwards.” The guests have paid for their stay and their provisions and so they find their so-called community in their mutual entitlement to safety, within limitations - the guest with stomach cancer was a pretty freaky example of where those limits exist.
I’m still working out some of my thoughts around this one, but I’m a sucker for dystopian fiction that is critical of our systems and societies, and this one is particularly impactful in that it was published in 1967 but could easily have been written today.
“Everything in Termush has begun to grow inwards.” The guests have paid for their stay and their provisions and so they find their so-called community in their mutual entitlement to safety, within limitations - the guest with stomach cancer was a pretty freaky example of where those limits exist.
I’m still working out some of my thoughts around this one, but I’m a sucker for dystopian fiction that is critical of our systems and societies, and this one is particularly impactful in that it was published in 1967 but could easily have been written today.
“The illusion of complete safety so long as the margin is not reached bears the reverse implication of complete panic once the margin is exceeded.”
“We paid money to go on living in the same way that one once paid health insurance; we bought the commodity called survival…”
“The chairman’s total lack of consideration seemed to have silenced his opponents. But his powerful obstinacy, his primitive blend of cunning and stupidity attracts supporters to rally round behind him.”
“He shrugged his shoulders and replied ironically that democracy is based on the vote and that therefore he did not put his faith in democracy… ‘I do have some faith in democracy,’ I replied, ‘but I don’t think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives.’ … democracy does depend on certain principles of freedom and these are often more essential than demonstrations of freedom. That vote was a simple demonstration of freedom, but it went against the principle of freedom. It restricted the freedom of the injured, their free right to be helped. For that reason I would not call the vote democratic.”
“We paid money to go on living in the same way that one once paid health insurance; we bought the commodity called survival…”
“The chairman’s total lack of consideration seemed to have silenced his opponents. But his powerful obstinacy, his primitive blend of cunning and stupidity attracts supporters to rally round behind him.”
“He shrugged his shoulders and replied ironically that democracy is based on the vote and that therefore he did not put his faith in democracy… ‘I do have some faith in democracy,’ I replied, ‘but I don’t think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives.’ … democracy does depend on certain principles of freedom and these are often more essential than demonstrations of freedom. That vote was a simple demonstration of freedom, but it went against the principle of freedom. It restricted the freedom of the injured, their free right to be helped. For that reason I would not call the vote democratic.”
challenging
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Wow, this was incredibly boring and I'm not sure there was a point to it.
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No