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The Angel's Share
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Read on the recommendation of Claire Cooney, who writes some pretty terrifying angels herself.
The writing was gorgeous. The nature of angels was ultimately a little hard to parse, and consequently the metaphysics of the universe of the story was a bit hard to parse, but that wasn't the focus of the story; the focus was on cruelty, suffering, and revenge.
It got me thinking about cruelty, about suffering, about how we say "it's not an oppression Olympics," and yet we also agree (I think???) that some pains are more severe than others. I think about how people's reactions to experiences can be so very, very different. Recently someone told me with satisfaction that the person who had killed their brother was later tortured to death, so like... that's a real thing. But there are also people who plead with courts for their kid's killer not to be executed. So that's real too.
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I found the first aspect highly unsettling and the second aspect almost not enough to let me shed the stress of the first part. I'm not sure I understood or quite believed in whatever made possible the change. But the story was definitely a powerful read.
The writing was gorgeous. The nature of angels was ultimately a little hard to parse, and consequently the metaphysics of the universe of the story was a bit hard to parse, but that wasn't the focus of the story; the focus was on cruelty, suffering, and revenge.
It got me thinking about cruelty, about suffering, about how we say "it's not an oppression Olympics," and yet we also agree (I think???) that some pains are more severe than others. I think about how people's reactions to experiences can be so very, very different. Recently someone told me with satisfaction that the person who had killed their brother was later tortured to death, so like... that's a real thing. But there are also people who plead with courts for their kid's killer not to be executed. So that's real too.
(view spoiler)
I found the first aspect highly unsettling and the second aspect almost not enough to let me shed the stress of the first part. I'm not sure I understood or quite believed in whatever made possible the change. But the story was definitely a powerful read.
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July 26, 2024
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