pickYeah. YEAH! I just love the way Harkaway writes. I hope nobody ever asks me to explain this book fully, but I'd go for 'sci-fi mystery with fantastical elements.' While the Matrix feels like an obvious reference point, I'd add Inception and Sucker Punch to the film comps. 1/?
"-a most diverting action of itself..." the demon in the peacock feather coat is hitting on the Ancient Greek alchemist. I love it here. ?
An amusing spin on the whole birds are raptors descended from dinosaurs thing. ☺️
Congratulations on selecting two of the least reassuring references in literature. 🫣
Given my 'hit and miss' experience of poetry, this analogy really resonates. 🎯
Dammit Harkaway. After 38 years, I am fully aware of my notebook abandoning tendencies and how slow and handcramping I find writing in comparison to the speed of type and how that is reflected in my dreadful handwriting and you're STILL making me want to write on physical paper with a nice pen! 🤦🏼♂️
Algorithms and art...for a book published in 2017, this is feeling very topical for current day! 🫤
Grandfather defeating the power of nightmares with art. 🥹💚
I love everything about this take down of fascism: "a bully's faith", "it is beneath you", that if the character applied his usual analysis it wouldn't stand up to scrutiny, that his dead wife would rather he have a shallow affair with a younger woman than succumb to the conspiracies surrounding this spurious ideology. ??
