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A review by e333mily
Hope In The Dark by Rebecca Solnit
2.0
“Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky…Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.”
“To hope is to give yourself to the future, and that commitment to the future makes the present inhabitable.”
"Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.”
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Loved some lines in the introductory essay, but Solnit’s political observations continue to disappoint me with their lack of nuance. I also grew bored of the trite metaphors she would draw at the end of each piece (“the uprising was a green stone thrown in the water whose ripples are still spreading outward”, “the revolution was a flower whose weightless seeds were taken up by the wind”). She has her moments of brilliance, but they were sparse enough to make reading this book incredibly tedious for me.
“To hope is to give yourself to the future, and that commitment to the future makes the present inhabitable.”
"Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.”
—
Loved some lines in the introductory essay, but Solnit’s political observations continue to disappoint me with their lack of nuance. I also grew bored of the trite metaphors she would draw at the end of each piece (“the uprising was a green stone thrown in the water whose ripples are still spreading outward”, “the revolution was a flower whose weightless seeds were taken up by the wind”). She has her moments of brilliance, but they were sparse enough to make reading this book incredibly tedious for me.