By Christopher Beha
Editor’s Note: I’ll just put it out there – this past month was brain candy month. I purposely read nothing that might improve my mind. But in doing so, I came upon this outstanding fiction which is, for my money, the best character development I’ve read in general fiction in a long time. The connections, of course, require a little stretching but the plot also has a marvelous take, as demonstrated by its title. That is, that we humans don’t need the outside world to destroy us because we are so good at destroying ourselves.
Favorite excerpt (Note this is one of the best quotes I’ve ever read on the purpose of writing):
“There was nothing shameful in watching [Frank self-destruct]. You need observers to make meaning, which was Frank’s stock-in-trade. The sense of the world must lie in the outside world. If no one wrote it down, it was gone the moment it happened. Words are the only way to pin things into place, to stop the flow of time.”
Intersted in the Book here’s a link
Peace,
Tim McCarthy
