daneekasghost's review
5.0
Levels upon levels. There were whole pages in this book that I wanted to write down and think about and carry with me.
justinpaszul's review
5.0
Disorienting and dissociative - The looming dread of Bolaño and the unsettling repetition of Last Year at Marienbad but infinitely more abstract and hallucinatory. A novel within a story alongside another story (and/or the other way around), a group of characters doomed from the start and aware of it, and of their presence in the story; and who might all just be different facets of the writer (of one of the stories, or of both), existing in and repeating the same interactions endlessly, simultaneously, at different angles, creating the illusion of momentum in a universe which will cease to exist if stops describing its own creation.
"... your words will be cups, but not cups full of water for the thirsty -your time is running out and the night is long -but cups that slip from your hands and begin their fateful fall; this notebook transcribes the precise instant that the cup is suspended in the air before turning to dust in the ground."
"... your words will be cups, but not cups full of water for the thirsty -your time is running out and the night is long -but cups that slip from your hands and begin their fateful fall; this notebook transcribes the precise instant that the cup is suspended in the air before turning to dust in the ground."
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