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aimeelia 's review for:
Love and Other Thought Experiments
by Sophie Ward
Playful, experimental + exploratory narrative with somewhat plain writing with the odd nice turn-of-phrase imo. Some pages seem to be pure filler and explain the same theory two or three times which I have already read and already understand? I was along for the ride until the flip of realities hit. If I hadn’t been watching a lot of Marvel alongside reading I’m not sure I’d have been as open to the sudden sci-fi element. (Eg: the day the final Wandavision episode aired which involved the explanation of Theseus was the same day that I read the short summary of the thought experiment in the book- a weird but complimenting coincidence!)
Some bits I liked:
•“We are high on death and the promise of what lies beyond”. (p85) (I do not view death this way but it’s encouraging)
•”That was the thing about dying, the micro and macro of it. Slowing down so that a whole lifetime seemed available in a day while all the while, the very finite amount of life she had left was running through the hourglass as fast as water”. (p114) (honestly just reminded me of the days before my own mother’s death lol)
Some bits I liked:
•“We are high on death and the promise of what lies beyond”. (p85) (I do not view death this way but it’s encouraging)
•”That was the thing about dying, the micro and macro of it. Slowing down so that a whole lifetime seemed available in a day while all the while, the very finite amount of life she had left was running through the hourglass as fast as water”. (p114) (honestly just reminded me of the days before my own mother’s death lol)