Status Updates From Bėgūnai

“[I]n contrast to his master, van Horssen has no talent for drawing. He is an anatomist, and for each autopsy he hires a professional craftsman. His working method consists in precise notes, so precise that when he rereads them everything comes right back before his eyes. For this, too, is a way. Writing.”

“And what a stroke of luck that such a book had fallen into the hands of such a person in such a place. A phenomenon known to travel psychologists by the name of synchronicity, evidence of the world making sense.”

“Once he’s gone, a short son escapes Kunicki; it’s like a big bite of bread, and he swallows it. It takes like nothing.”

A short sob IS like a big bite of bread!!!

Frog and bird “There are two points of view in the world: the frogs perspective and birds eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.”

“We experience time and space in a matter that is primarily unconscious.”
“Our sense of space results from our ability to move”
“Place as an aspect of space pause time… it is ecstatic notion”

Human time is divided into stages as movement through space is broken up by place – pauses, such pauses, anchoress within the flow of time

Starting to understand after almost halfway through! Very different read for sure.

Themes:

Conservation of the body after death ( animals and humans) some humans were displayed in personal museums without consent and not returned to families so they could bury their loved ones.

Travel psychology

The artistry of this novel continually amazes me.