3:AM in Lockdown 5: Nicholas Rombes
Human Wishes By Nicholas Rombes. All time is down time, now. Outside my window here in Michigan the Black-capped Chickadees and the Red-breasted Nuthatches come and go from the leaning clutch of Boxelders. What do they know of human wishes? The small artifacts, the remainders, become important in down time. Striving against boredom by […]
A Complicated Fondness: Bohumil Hrabal’s All My Cats
The obsessional thinking on display in All My Cats ultimately becomes a cosmology characterized by paranoia. Thinking thoughts that seem alien leads Hrabal to the conclusion that: Everything came at me with its sharp edges forward, and I felt then that the hand writing my destiny was not my hand. . . . Everything seemed to have been prepared for me long ago, even things I believed I’d done of my own volition, because when I thought about it, it seems as though it had been made ready to happen long ago, and all I had done was to slip the key into the door, which although it was opened by me alone, had also been prepared for me alone.
Andrew Griffin reviews All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal.
3:AM in Lockdown 4: Benjamin Myers
By Benjamin Myers. I do what I always do: roll out of bed with the assumption that the world is nigh, and from that moment on the day can only get better. I pour nuts into the bird feeders and wait for the crows. When they’ve squared off, elbowed each other out the way, come […]