#279 Flytopia- Will Self
We are following Jonathan in the small Suffolk town of
Inwardleigh:
-“…a town which had been marooned by the vagaries of human
geography, left washed up in an oxbow of demography, run aground on the shingle
of a failing economy, and land-locked by the shifting dunes of social trends…”
-“…some places achieve character, Inwardleigh had been
visited only with anonymity.”
-“But then no one much wanted to live in Inwardleigh and its
environs, where self-abuse was rife and the vet shot up his own horse
tranquilizer.”
-“It was a landscape of ingress and repose: a tired body
lying down on an old, horsehair mattress.”
So the town itself is not that exciting. Then there is the
heat, the boring food, the smells, and the bugs of course, bugs, bugs, bugs,
everywhere. Bugs of all sorts, doing bug like things on bug like ways.
The story almost lost me when Jonathan was thinking of
earwigs during sex. The misery and disdain wasn’t as humorous as it was
supposed to be. However, then the story took a fun turn. Jonathan found a way
to survive his entomophobia, and his imagination turns his dull boring
surrounding into something a whole lot more interesting to read about.
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