I don't know if it is, necessarily! I'd be curious to know what osprey_archer thinks.
Trying to read this story actually reminded me a lot of trying to read another zeitgeist bomb, Gravity's Rainbow, which I also completely failed to appreciate. There's a similar density of stressed-out microcultural particles that I just don't feel equipped to try to parse - but it's not just that I don't get the references, it's that the writing is evoking a particular (unfamiliar) mental state that it's difficult for me to stay with. If that makes sense?
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Date: 2021-02-24 04:12 pm (UTC)Trying to read this story actually reminded me a lot of trying to read another zeitgeist bomb, Gravity's Rainbow, which I also completely failed to appreciate. There's a similar density of stressed-out microcultural particles that I just don't feel equipped to try to parse - but it's not just that I don't get the references, it's that the writing is evoking a particular (unfamiliar) mental state that it's difficult for me to stay with. If that makes sense?