People just don’t wanna work anymore. Nowadays people only want to pick up an oar and walk inland and keep walking until someone mistakes that oar for a shovel. For that would be the place that no man had ever been troubled by the sea. And that’s where they’ll find peace. In the end, that’s all people nowadays want. To walk away from the sea and find some peace.
Why Nona is an unreliable narrator: She’s the soul of the Earth squashed into a human Barbie doll now living in a different body and also she has no memory of any of this happening
Why Harrow is an unreliable narrator: She lobotomized herself so she wouldn’t remember the most significant person in her life and gets brain hemorrhages any time she remembers. She’s also schizophrenic and haunted.
Why Gideon is an unreliable narrator: She mostly pays attention to swordfighting, hot women, and Harrow and ignores the rest.
simply cannot ever resist what i call the little mermaid or the tin man or the pinnochio plot, the one about a character who is either inhuman or human but outside in some way, constantly searching for whatever it is that they consider to be the quintessential proof of humanity, preoccupied by it so deeply that they fail to realize the proof is in the act and fact of the search itself
ID: tags reading “#i am reminded very much of the joke about the robber and the poor man #where the poor man wakes up and finds someone robbing his house and asks what they’re looking for #and the robber says ‘money.’ #and the poor man says ‘maybe if we both look together we can find some.’ #a human asks a robot or a wooden boy or a ghost or a mermaid what they’re looking for #and the inhuman person says that they’re searching for a way to be human #and the human says let’s both search together #maybe we’ll find it if we both look. End ID
“our son made it through the war to come of age, let’s fucken party! rsvp only if you’re a little bitch who’s NOT coming. all y'all not dead of alcohol poisoning by morning (lmao losers) get dunkt on”
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