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2019/12: Everything Under -- Daisy Johnson
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 08:11 am2019/12: Everything Under -- Daisy Johnson
I read this on a friend's recommendation, and had managed to forget what she had told me about the embedded myth(s): which was a good thing, as I could better appreciate the gradual revelation of the themes, and the way the story was constructed -- gender-bent, seen aslant, in negative space.
( no spoilers )
I'd always understood that the past did not die just because we wanted it to. The past signed to us: clicks and cracks in the night, misspelled words, the jargon of adverts, the bodies that attracted us or did not, the sounds that reminded us of this or that. The past was not a thread trailing behind us but an anchor. [p. 14]
I read this on a friend's recommendation, and had managed to forget what she had told me about the embedded myth(s): which was a good thing, as I could better appreciate the gradual revelation of the themes, and the way the story was constructed -- gender-bent, seen aslant, in negative space.
( no spoilers )
