Dont let me be lonely claudia rankine5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() I’m intrigued then, by what could have made Don’t Let Me Be Lonley so palatable, enjoyable even, when it seems to follow a similar course and reach similar conclusions.Īnd immediate possibility is the visual look of the piece. ![]() In the case of Mao II, I was so exasperated by the end (because do we really need so much help merely to continue feeling bleak?) that I literally threw the book. While Mao II deals with anonymity in the context of writers and dictators, the sense of universal victimization was very similar. I found myself comparing it a lot with Don DeLillo’s Mao II. ![]() Some of this may have been due to being in a good mood generally, but I do think there was something pertinent in the work itself. our brains are controlled by drugs dispensed by evil and all-powerful pharmaceutical companies, and so on, so what is the point of even getting out of bed, much less resistance), it rarely left me in a shitty mood. This contradiction was one of the most fascinating aspects of this piece to me… that while the subject matter was not only somber, but entropically somber (ie. What a depressing book to read over the Thanksgiving holiday!Īlthough, while it was depressing, it wasn’t precisely discouraging. ![]()
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