Amelia Cortez’s Reviews > I am Providence > Status Update

“Panossian’s face, warped and twisted so far out of recognition that he is only barely human anymore, and that is an improvement. Panossian’s face, molded and shaped into a gill-checked bug-eyed Innsmouthian. Panossian’s face, finally surrounded by other books and nothing else but. It’s a dream come true, an afterlife like that. I wish I were he.”

“There’s something about us humans; we see faces where there aren’t any. In the façades of buildings among the windows and doors, on a plate of eggs with a strip of bacon. We want to anthropomorphize everything around us — this is why the dead shock us. We’re not quite human anymore.”