Interesting concept, but not my favorite. Though I'm relatively captivated by the thought of the sheer number of dead people there are in relation to the ~7,000,000 alive on earth. Makes me feel small and insignificant but also a part of something huge. Her section, Numbers, was the most telling to me, making it concrete and real and so utterly massive. It's sad, it's not a fun read by any means, but it fits the head space that I've been living in. Though, that might not necessarily be a good thing. Lots of melancholy books for a melancholy girl. Whoops.
"But our minds must not go slack. How can we think straight if our minds go slack?" That is the question indeed, Ms. Dillard, that is the question. How do we end this cycle of our minds going slack once they are there? To answer the question, our minds would have to be sharper than slack, and thus we couldn't solve the problem. I guess we could, just slower...not sure though, because my mind has gone slack. The first step is admitting you have a problem, right?
I realize I keep just posting walls of text and not splitting them into paragraphs...Sorry! Typing these up from handwritten notes full of doodles and things, they're not the most organized of thoughts, but then, mine never are.
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