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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2019-10-03 02:45 am

Will it make a sound or in its own song be drowned?

I am returned to Boston. The train did nothing remarkable except arrive on time. I read Farah Rose Smith's Of One Pure Will (2019) and the manuscript of a novel by Michael Cisco that I want to exist in print already; it has yaks and Messerschmidt heads. He took this picture of me last night with Herman. Now I am going to bed.

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[personal profile] asakiyume 2019-10-03 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm only two episodes in, but so far it's mesmerizing. I want to check out whether some of the mythology relied on is genuine. So far I haven't been able to locate anything one way or another, but I liked what this article said about different treatments of time, because that's something that comes through very clearly in just two episodes: you move seamlessly from "past" to "present" and back in a way that highlights the arbitrariness of those categories if you shift your manner of perception.

... Reading a different article, I've discovered that the two indigenous languages that are spoken in the show are Tikuna and Huitoto... but I'm no closer to finding out about the mythology. I *suspect* it's made up...

ETA: so I guess I should revise "bunches" in my initial comment about languages to "two," heh.
Edited 2019-10-03 17:04 (UTC)