book review
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
A woman of privilege grappling with despair arranges a year-long plunge into unconsciousness, abetted by a psychiatrist of questionable standing. Darkly comic and suffused with the seductive fantasy of narcosis; its narrator defies sympathy at every turn, yet becomes impossible to relinquish.
what it left me with
One cannot sleep past the reckoning that awaits; but the hunger for abdication dwells far more universally in the human heart than we allow ourselves to confess.
this is one entry from a wandering list of films, books, shows and albums, kept by someone trying to live a slightly more deliberate life.
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