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A positive surprise. The humor is great, the intrigue is palpable even when it is only about elderly women conspiring to steal fudge. Carrington is a master of implication, I can feel her wink in every second sentence.

+ full of peculiar ideas, e.g. blend between animate/inanimate, people turning into objects and objects having intent. a dentist seeing the soul in the teeth. soldiers feeling like stone masons while killing Hereros (fucked up thought).
- too many characters with little to differentiate them, and at points it drags on.
clearly an original thinker, looking forward to his later and better crafted books

my brain feels ventilated

The narrative and ideas clearly trace a core, while never exposing it. Like water flowing around a stone, curving around its surface. The pacing feels like a physical force, sometimes gliding smooth, sometimes turning so violently, it gives your attention a whiplash.