Status Updates From Hańba

19. Dinner with the Isaacs’

Lurie mentions he has been in a state of disgrace, while I thought the real disgrace is yet to come. Is the eponymous disgrace merely a humble lesson? I expected more shame, more isolation. Of course it’s tough to lose your livelihood and colleagues, your surroundings. But the attack has nothing to with it. I’m confused and a bit… disappointed? Let’s wait for the final part.

18. Lucie speaks. And writes.

How, he thinks to himself, can a man in this state find words, find music that will bring back the dead?

17. Bev, flushed. Lurie momentarily decent but then self-righteous again

…how the whiff of scandal excites women. Less decent though…

But I was the troublemaker in this case .

Seems to me like a decent thing to say, taking responsibility for his own mess…

16. Incinerator

He saves the honour of corpses because there is no one else stupid enough to do it. That is what he is becoming: stupidity, daft, wrongheaded.

Oh. Now I recall how upsetting this book was.