Taylor’s Reviews > Immaculate Conception > Status Update

the phrasing of concepts in this book is just so mind blowing. “an original psychic wound” to describe mathilde’s childhood trauma??

i’ve come to realize that i may be more similar to Enka in my friendships than i’d like to admit although i do think whimsy is unfortunately in my blood. absolutely no SA’ing my partner though. maybe not LOL

“Rendering my art constantly reactive, whereas Mathilde was endlessly generative.”

“A labyrinth of iPads a visitor had to get through, only to end up at a mirror. The first and ultimate screen. The self, after all, being the thing we hope to discover or recognize in all screens.”

HOW DO YOU THINK OF THAT? BRILLIANT

as a disabled person just starting out as a writer and beginning this book , this book so far gets everything right about creating art for solace. “I made scarcity a good education” is such a devastatingly gorgeous depiction of what it means to create under any circumstance. i’ve even started writing with this audiobook on lol, it’s a great motivator.