Luke’s Reviews > Adam Bede > Status Update

What would this community catharsis drama be with free and humane access to contraceptives and other true forms of human fertility management? It makes me wonder how much the status quo's insistence that those living with wombs have less rights to their bodies than do corpses to theirs is hate, and how much is fear of no longer having the means to emotionally subjugate small communities with events such as this.

Evans' allusions sometime seem made more for their dusty academic qualities than for purposes of comparative meaning. I don't see how she would have connected the scene of a grown man giving a toddling girl a ride on his shoulder with the story of Ganymede and Zeus otherwise.

It wouldn't take much to write this frantic fight scene and its caring aftermath queer, but that'd be too much for those obsessed with class differences and heterosexuality.

My sixth work of Evans' read in less than a decade. At this rate, I might actually read everything substantial of hers before the current decade is through.