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Set in a library?
“But from what I could tell, the library was just that: quiet, anonymous, orderly, and sane.” Page 11.
Sane. Quiet. Virgo (in my mind).
Ok, first few pages, serial killer librarian? Angel of mercy mixed with a bit of gothic horror? Love in the library?
“It felt good to write it all out, to get it outside of me.” Page 89.
Two voices, one book. A writer manqué, and a killer nurse, paired up.
- Sidebar
Halfway through, I realized, the problem, the set-up, and this stretches over several novels recently, the prize for a writer is a book in publication. The problem? I don’t have a niche that I can fulfill like that. Doesn’t bother me, I don’t need the big deal to make me feel like I’ve accomplished what I have. My style, forged in a trailer park? Spit and post. “That’s not a thing.” Is too!
Back from the unasked question. Two voices, one book, a serial killer lurking in a library.
Very enjoyable reading, the author is a poet, and the musical language, yeah, it’s there, but I liked the two opposing voices.
Good book.
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Death
Θάνατος ἀνάπαυλα αἰσθητικῆς ἀντιτυπίας καὶ ὁρμητικῆς νευροσπαστίας καὶ διανοητικῆς διεξόδου καὶ τῆς πρὸς τὴν σάρκα λειτουργίας.
- “Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh.”
Book 6
- “Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.”
“Death Is a Cessation from the Impression of the Senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body.”
Marcus Aurelius (meditations)
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