Status Updates From Aceptación (Southern Reach,...

I didn’t like this book as much as the first two - I felt there was too much focus on office politics and not enough about what was actually happening in Area X. That said I still plan to read the next book.

“The biologist looks at you like you’re an opponent, not the person who can send her where she so obviously wants to go. You note again…That she has a kind of self possession that comes not just from knowing who she is but from knowing that, if it comes down to it, she needs no one. Some professionals might diagnose that as a disorder, but in the biologist it comes across as an absolute and unbending clarity.”

Jeff heeft een manier van schrijven waarin hij het onbeschrijflijke beschreven krijgt.

De beschrijving van The Crawler is zeer levendig en toch blijft dit creatuur niet volledig voor de geest te halen.

“Secured the lighthouse…Fixed things. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Came then the crying call of a curlew, and at dawn, too, I heard the hooting of an owl, the yap of foxes…a bear cub poked its head out…And the hand of the sinner shall rejoice, for there is no sin in shadow or in light that the seeds of the dead cannot forgive.”
Yeah, Saul’s FINE. 100%.