the other two sections were an absolute delight to read, but i feel like i didn't get as much out of the crivano parts as i should have.
maybe it was the time period or the less-theoretical descriptions of alchemical/philosophical/optical stuff, but i found myself too often during his segments doing that thing where your eyes are moving over the words but your brain isn't absorbing the story and you have to go back a bunch of times to try and make it stick. This is a great big enjoyable monster of a book.īefore we start, i need to say that the ONLY reason i gave it four stars instead of five is because this is a book divided into three alternating narratives and while i loved curtis' and stanley's portions of the book, i struggled a bit with the crivano segments. In which the novel teasingly moons you with its own mission statement. Only with distance do prevailing images become clear. We perceive only a confusion of paltry choices, like the tesserae of a mosaic.
…we sometimes find that our most momentous decisions are unseen by us as we make them.
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