Status Updates From Empusion

Epilogue and Author’s Note

The authors note actually add a shocking charge to the novel’s story, considering all these great minds and the horribly misogynistic thoughts they have put to paper. I’m kind of relieved that Thomas Mann is not in the list, which is a powerful reproach to the patriarchy.

16. A person in one shoe

Can you see us at last, Mieczysław Wojnicz, you brave engineer from the flat, woodless steppes? Can you see us, you freak human being who likes to dry leaves to paste in a book and save them from decay and death?

15. The weakest spot in the soul 🤍

Soon he was surrounded by clouds of aromatic smoke, like an oracle.

Indeed, considering how wise and revealing Dr. Semperweiss ‘ words are. It feels like finally recognizing the companion Ive been hoping for over the past 40 odd years. Important stuff! (p. 270-275)

”…I urge you to create your own fiction, one that says it’s you that’s perfect, for instance.”

That seems a very sweet thing to say, for a doctor!

14. A temperature chart

…Saint Emerentia — she must surely be the protectress of wardrobes, the matron saint of mothballs, hiding places, narrow passages, dark corridors and fox dens.