πππππ(5/5) . Like honey is the sleep of the just. βββββ Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. βββββ Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling. βββββ Geryonβs life entered a numb time, caught between the tongue and the taste. βββββ Although a monster Geryon could be charming in company. βββββ βWhat is time made of?β Is a question that had long exercised Geryon. βββββ A healthy volcano is an exercise in the uses of pressure. . Geryon, a red monster with wings. Herakles, and his heroic arrogance. Their young love, and the volcano they visited on the island of their youth. Their fates entangled, and their happenstance meeting years later in Buenos Aires, and the Patagonian volcano to which they travel. . Not quite a collection of poetry yet not a prosaic piece of literature. A gentle heartbeat and the guiding hand of Anne Carson lead us through the life of a misunderstood young boy who can never quite share his rich emotional world with those whom he loves. . To me, this novel is a sensitive and artistic answer to the question βWho hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?β . This may be my very favorite book. . #AutobiographyOfRed #AnneCarson #Geryon #Volcano #Poetry #Fiction #QueerFiction #QueerLiterature #GayFiction #GayLiterature #bookstagram #bookrecommendation #readinglist2019 #booksireadin2019 #_bookshelf2019_ (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0WlJ0YJlVi/?igshid=1r7qq4g1ez09g
