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This book is a political-spiritual prose poem. Camera wanders from person to person, point-of-view shifts all over and it's hard to find your feet reading it. That's intentional. Not a book for the entirely rational mind. A dream narrative for dreamers.

"To have dominion was not to knock out, downpress, bruise, but to understand, to love, make at home." pg. 267

I'm reading so sloooowwwwlllly this year. Gotta give this one back to the library... again.

Boom, my mind is building. What a great trove of concepts.

Yeah, read half of this book almost 7 years ago. Started it over recently. New Crobuzon is an astounding character.

This is taking a while.

Davis uses a facade of objectivity to explain slavery as an economic system that "worked". He places New World slavery in a context of long-standing historical slavery and work exploitation. This facade of objectivity facilitates his avoidance of the absolute moral bankruptcy of placing profit over people. This shit is hard to swallow.

Deep, cold history.