So apparently I have been wronging Moss, because I was thinking of a completely different person when I said I didn't like her work. I'm not sure who I was thinking of, but Moss didn't write the book I didn't like. I guess if you read as many books as we do, you'll get mixed up sometimes! Sorry, Sarah Moss.
It's good when a book forces you to interrogate your own perceptions: for me, too, my interest in the past isn't tied up in the idea of purity or xenophobia -- or the idea that anything, aside from our proximity to environmental collapse, was any better -- but why am I so drawn to it? I definitely associate a proximity to the past with a sense of the numinous, which probably means I overlook its hardship and violence at times. Anyway, it sounds like Moss's book is interesting, and I shouldn't have been dismissing it so readily!
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Date: 2019-06-18 07:24 pm (UTC)It's good when a book forces you to interrogate your own perceptions: for me, too, my interest in the past isn't tied up in the idea of purity or xenophobia -- or the idea that anything, aside from our proximity to environmental collapse, was any better -- but why am I so drawn to it? I definitely associate a proximity to the past with a sense of the numinous, which probably means I overlook its hardship and violence at times. Anyway, it sounds like Moss's book is interesting, and I shouldn't have been dismissing it so readily!