Mariel’s Reviews > I Who Have Never Known Men > Status Update

“A vague melancholy set in. I think they were wondering why they were wearing themselves out trying to survive from day to day in this alien land where only the grave awaited them. But they didn’t talk about it. They no longer chatted endlessly about nothing, but came and went in silence, slowly as if weighed down by inevitability.” Basically us as humans trying to suppress the effects of ecological devastation