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“Hope is optimism with a broken heart”
I just finished reading Faith, Hope and Carnage, a book of conversations between Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan. I cried many times and absolutely loved it. It deals a lot with grief and religion but also art and the creative process. A really beautiful read.
I just finished reading Faith, Hope and Carnage, a book of conversations between Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan. I cried many times and absolutely loved it. It deals a lot with grief and religion but also art and the creative process. A really beautiful read.
Sep 15, 2024
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🪶Really powerful and interesting book.
Incredibly strange prose but its really great.
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A tense, slow burning, gripping read.
“It's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves and the cities have retreated to higher storeys. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.”
King Lear meets the climate crisis. Just as stunningly written as Our Wives Under the Sea. I cried when I finished it this morning, mostly at it being over.
“It's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves and the cities have retreated to higher storeys. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.”
King Lear meets the climate crisis. Just as stunningly written as Our Wives Under the Sea. I cried when I finished it this morning, mostly at it being over.
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📓I’ve read this book before but it is on a course syllabus for me this semester and I’ve already reread it twice- this book is devastating, raw, theologically rich, and has fundamentally changed the way I think about grief. Nicholas Wolterstorff captures something so intimate that reading this feels like an intrusion but in a way that always makes me feel simultaneously more human and more connected to the Divine.
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😔…not ☹️.
For whatever reason I keep posting and then deleting my recs immediately. I’ve gotten shy on here. I used to be so bold. I don’t know what happened !!!
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😵I’m currently in the back seat of my friend’s car listening to their future plans. It’s lowkey terrifying me. However….take this as your sign that you don’t have to know what you want. You’re not alone!!!