The WEIRD (38)
Real-Time Review continued from HERE.
The WEIRD: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
Edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
First published in Great Britain 2011 by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.
2 Dec 11 – another 90 minutes later
Singing My Sister Down – Margo Lanagan
Like a strange bar-mitzvah, the girl ikky is sent deeper and deeper, by slowmotion, into the sinking tar – brer fox he lay low – like a marriage ceremony to love or to death only this unthinking ritual knows – a happy (?) family occasion: a joyce carol oates family erstwhile in this book – “the flashiest, hardest music I knew” – “a big warm hug up my legs” – Bradbury’s “crowd-mumble” - a chameleon synaesthesia of passage – and I don’t know exactly how (so I won’t extrapolate), but this is probably the most poignant story in the book so far (and there are not many stories left to compete with it in this my own ‘dying fall’ of a passage into this amazing book’s hugging tar: tar as colomber or burr) – Last Rites and Resurrections…
Continued as The WEIRD (39) HERE.
Index of this whole real-time review HERE.
