Status Updates From Insurrecto

'It is terrible how grief is a glutton—it swallows everything in its path. History, revolution, bloodshed. I wanted to write in a voice strange and distant and foreign—I wanted to get outside myself. A different lens. And I wanted to write about this unfinished thing—this revolution. A story of war and loss so repressed and so untold. But all I did was dwell on trauma that only causes recurrence of pain."

'...the morbid multiplication would mirror the infinite spiral of historic slaughter, mimicking the exhaustive horror history has already cataloged.'

I find myself taking more breaks from Insurrecto because 1) the playfulness that would take full form in La Tercera are mere wisps here so 2) the very heavy emotions of the very heavy ideas here just hit you straight in the face 3) which makes me sad. makes me cry.

Bigat

Its all coming together, as it always does eventually in an Apostol novel. Meaning: I’m stopping every 2 pages to write down something or put a tab.

Dense af

I have been following this so badly. I think it's the writing style.