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the made up word “rhinoceroscrutian” is not any less crazy on the reread

This book is really funny on a reread bc originally i was kind of annoyed by all of Control’s weird little masculinisms but now having reread annihilation a bunch and read Borne and knowing vandermeer can actually write women characters whose personalities don’t boil down to Female Anti-Man, Control’s narration reads more like ahhh fuck what do men like. football metaphors? push-ups? the sound of an engine?

I think maybe I like control better on this read through

The issues I have with how this is written absolutely pale in comparison to my awe at the sheer guts required to make up a word like "rhinoceroscrutian" and not explain it or acknowledge how insane that is at all. Kudos to jeff for that one I gotta say