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Deeply invested in Thalia's lived experience in New York in the late 1990's and her sporadic search for her biological mother, only to be introduced to Robert on page 184 out of 289.
May I be forgiven for saying " Who the fuck is Robert!?!" Out loud while reading?

I'm giving up

Op bladsy 36 van Leo deur Deon Meyer is ek ietwat verbaas deur die deernisvolle beskrywing van Solastalgia, wat opduik so half asof dit 'n nagedagte is... maar dit bloei deur elke daaropvolgende paragraaf soos 'n gapende wond. Miskien is dit tog oral te bespeur vir diegene van ons wat weet hoe dit voel, wat nog kan luister, kyk én sien, hoe 'n gewonde wêreld voor ons oë doodbloei.

Still....Surprised by Solastalgia.

Op bladsy 36 van Leo deur Deon Meyer is ek ietwat verbaas deur die deernisvolle beskrywing van Solastalgia, wat opduik so half asof dit 'n nagedagte is... maar dit bloei deur elke daaropvolgende paragraaf soos 'n gapende wond. Miskien is dit tog oral te bespeur vir diegene van ons wat weet hoe dit voel, wat nog kan luister, kyk én sien, hoe 'n gewonde wêreld voor ons oë doodbloei.

Still....Surprised by Solastalgia.

Surprised by Solastalgia.
But perhaps it is visible everywhere for those who care to look.

This may be the saddest page I have ever read.

I started it yesterday and already shed my first tear. Venter shows incredible empathy with this species of mammal, tethered to the brink of extinction. He writes gentle devastation, killing his reader softly.

Timothy Morton is fiercely critical of Haraway, yet I have not been this enamoured with an author's manner of thinking since Staying with the Trouble

Hoping to make it through Part I with my faculties intact...