Ferz Hazzard’s Reviews > The Wall > Status Update

“When will it stop being anyone else’s business if a woman chooses to live on her own and do god-knows-what all day? When will it finally be acknowledged that, as she* observed, it is the world that is strange and unsettling, not the women it is so hostile to? We’d better hope it’s soon, not least because by now we’ve really only got a few matches left.” 🗣️

“But if time exists only in my head, and I'm the last human being, it will end with my death. The thought cheers me… Things happen, and, like millions of people before me, I look for meaning in them, because my vanity will not allow me to admit that the whole meaning of an event lies in the event itself.” 🗣️

“I often look forward to a time when there won't be anything left to grow attached to. I'm tired of everything being taken away from me. Yet there's no escape, for as long as there's something for me to love in the forest, I shall love it; and if some day there is nothing, I shall stop living.” 🗣️

“External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom. And I have never found this fact shaming. I can’t see what should be dishonorable about bearing, as all animals do, this burden that is laid upon us; in the end, we die as all animals do…” 📖🎧

I’ve heard such great things about this book! Feminist sci fi, survival vibes, and a critique of modern civilization? Say less. I’m super intrigued!!! 🎧📖