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A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
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bookshelves: these-fragile-lives, rain-man-reviews, unstablenarratives
Nov 07, 2022
bookshelves: these-fragile-lives, rain-man-reviews, unstablenarratives
when something tragic and horrible happens to someone you love, something that could have been avoided, if I had only if she had only if they hadn't if the world wasn't, you can feel a rage not just against the person or people who caused that tragedy, who hurt or killed that loved one, you feel a rage against the entire world, like lightning striking again and again and again, that's what you want, burning everything down, killing everyone in sight, innocent and guilty alike, who's innocent anyway, who needs people anyway, now that the person you love has been taken away from you. just burn it all down, you dream and you rage, as you imagine all the alternate scenarios that could have saved that person you love, all the things you could have done, as you imagine catastrophe striking the world, a catastrophe that parallels what you are feeling inside, and what you are feeling is a need to see everything and everyone burned, everything in ashes like the ashes where your heart used to be.
this story was like the best of Sylvia Plath: full of rage, full of sadness, full of imagining how it all could have been so different, if only.
read this primal scream for free, but is anything or anyone truly free:
https://www.tor.com/2016/03/02/a-fist...
this story was like the best of Sylvia Plath: full of rage, full of sadness, full of imagining how it all could have been so different, if only.
read this primal scream for free, but is anything or anyone truly free:
https://www.tor.com/2016/03/02/a-fist...
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Nov 07, 2022 09:49PM
Lovely review. That first paragraph was lyrical and very beautiful. Interesting to think about how when we love someone, it's as if we care about them to the point they become an extension of our mind, a part of our mind and soul and body so intimately connected to ourselves, so much a part of our thoughts as theirs, that when that someone is hurt, you feel almost as if you are the one beholding that very tragedy and grief. Seems to demonstrate just how powerful emotional connections can be!
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Thank you Kate. I tried to encapsulate both the emotions of the story's protagonist and my own emotions from when similar situations have happened (long ago).when we love someone, it's as if we care about them to the point they become an extension of our mind... when that someone is hurt, you feel almost as if you are the one beholding that very tragedy and grief.
very true and a that is definitely a big part of the emotional content within this story.
