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fleshexecutable's Reviews (65)
“Perhaps this piece of evolution makes no sense—our hunger for everyday sorts of visual pleasure—but I don’t think so. I think we have survived because we love beauty and because we find each other beautiful. I think it may be our strongest quality.”
This is my third time reading this book and I keep trying to figure out what draws me back to it. It’s almost a comfort read at this point but that feels oxymoronic, like someone finding comfort in true crime or The Handmaid’s Tale. But I think what’s so comforting about it is how calmly and quietly the end comes about. It’s not with a bang or a huge cataclysmic event. It’s like the whole “time moves forward because of the universe expanding and whatever expands, must contract” thing. All life on Earth just retracts and undoes itself, like manually rewinding a cassette with the tip of a pencil. There’s comfort in unbecoming and as a result, being reborn etc, etc, etc. Whatever. You know things are fucked when getting genetically Benjamin Button-ed doesn’t sound half bad. Erdrich didn’t miss with this one, I assume I’ll read it a fourth time as well.
This is my third time reading this book and I keep trying to figure out what draws me back to it. It’s almost a comfort read at this point but that feels oxymoronic, like someone finding comfort in true crime or The Handmaid’s Tale. But I think what’s so comforting about it is how calmly and quietly the end comes about. It’s not with a bang or a huge cataclysmic event. It’s like the whole “time moves forward because of the universe expanding and whatever expands, must contract” thing. All life on Earth just retracts and undoes itself, like manually rewinding a cassette with the tip of a pencil. There’s comfort in unbecoming and as a result, being reborn etc, etc, etc. Whatever. You know things are fucked when getting genetically Benjamin Button-ed doesn’t sound half bad. Erdrich didn’t miss with this one, I assume I’ll read it a fourth time as well.
