#404 The North London Book of the Dead- Will Self
The first few pages feel like a sad, touching story about a
son losing his mother to cancer, and perhaps that is what the whole story is,
but then it takes a sharp left turn. It turns out that when you die in London
you don’t really go anywhere.
“When you die, you move to another part of London.”
“The dead community are self-administering and there are
dead people in most of the major enterprises, organizations and institutions.
There are some autonomous services for dead people, but on the whole dead
services operate alongside live ones. Most dead people have jobs, some work for
live companies. Mother for example, was working for a live publishing company.”
Either a work of pure fantasy, or a man unwilling to let go
of a loved one. Either way, this is a pretty typical style and quirkiness of
Will Self.
Word of the Day: Eschatology- a branch of theology concerned
with the final events in the history of the world or of humankind
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