I’m moved towards an abject sense of hopelessness by this collection of short stories. They focus around the human races tendancy towards self destruction. Aptly illustrating the pointlessness of the works of man with pointless but emotive stories played out by pointless and desolate characters. Most of them have no real conclusion, if they do then it is bleak and suggestively fatal.
Do not read in the presence of razor blades.
March 28th, 2003 at 11:19 am
I read this when I was at school maybe 20 years ago, I keep meaning to read it again, I’ll probably get more out of it now, but even many years later the images evoked still come to mind from time to time.
I agree it is very bleak, sort of wasteland paths, rather than garden path stories.