Uncomfortable increasingly less sat-upon Pew wonders ‘why it was that anyone believed the human body needed to be any particular way, or what was so important about a human body’ (116). Wise Pew refuses to think ‘other people’s dreams are boring’ (112).
Month: July 2021
George Saunders 2017 Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury)
A swarm around gravestones and archives in the dodgy company of the haunted Lincolns. A swimmy mess of historical confabulation that preys on fears and half-alive mythologies and propaganda. Voices of poetry and prosy, ghostly prodding and all this with terrifying wit.
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