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tho I haven't read much further than this story, I am imagining that this is the pinnacle story, for me anyways. I took two days to read it, had to stop when a concept hit me too hard and I couldn't breathe. where to go from here.because I'm writing from the phone I will restrict this now to one quote to place against the complaints that this book is more showy pyrotechnics and less political than the standard CM. When he muses on
...grass- roots democracy before there was grass or roots or anything but hot dirt, until at last there were birds and an epoch of
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what do you think he is talking about if not for the ground of being?
The Dusty Hat was surprisingly the story I understood the most, which probably means I *didn't* understand it, but... I thought this story had the most solid ending out of any of them, that elements of earth have always been warring with each other and that the wars of humanity are merely another manifestation of this fight.
LOL. I totally understand how thinking you understood it probably means you didn't. That's how I feel about "The Dowager of Bees".I haven't quite reached the ending yet, so I shouldn't be reading this...
it is the elements getting together that creates life. war always means destruction. on one level i resonate with this story and that's how I understand it. otherwise it, in fact this collection, is quite incomprehensible.
It's working on so many levels. Of course, all life is "dust to dust". Geology is just a history of schisms. I loved the part about hate. Naturally, I don't have the book with me... but both that you have to have hate to have love, but that it's also alright to hate things for themselves; and that you don't have to have a better alternative!
In the recent Goodreads interview with Mieville, he got a little tetchy when somebody suggested that politics were a pose in his books. I don't think you can read this and not believe he's heavily invested in socialism.
Escapee was interesting, but exactly what it says: just a trailer.
