Christy’s Reviews > Railsea > Status Update

"Our minds we salvage from history's rubbish, & they are machines to make chaos into story." I've seen some complaints about these interludes about storytelling, these authorial intrusions, but I love them. They provide the above commentary & turns of phrase like these: "[a] researcher into the mind, a psychonomer, a thought-mapper" or "the cheeky escapology of narrative." They also re-connect this to Moby Dick.