I came to this as "one of the lucky few with a first reading ahead of you" and I'm now "in a state of hushed awe." How have I never known this story until now? Every piece of it amazes. Every detail carries that 'time-sickness' you so astutely zeroed in on. The wave crashing on the beach is breath taking; the best description of a breaking wave I've ever read. Thank you so much for this story and your insights!
The sentence is amazing because it makes you stop, misunderstand and then read again slowly, pulling it apart because the sentence you think exists does not.
I came to this as "one of the lucky few with a first reading ahead of you" and I'm now "in a state of hushed awe." How have I never known this story until now? Every piece of it amazes. Every detail carries that 'time-sickness' you so astutely zeroed in on. The wave crashing on the beach is breath taking; the best description of a breaking wave I've ever read. Thank you so much for this story and your insights!
I agree, a wonderful, astonishing story. In the same vein, Sharon Old's poem "I go back to May 1937"
The sentence is amazing because it makes you stop, misunderstand and then read again slowly, pulling it apart because the sentence you think exists does not.
"Sometimes an author writes something so good that it constitutes a personal catastrophe." Gah, this is how I feel every time I read your posts here!