Link puts a metafictional twist on the narrative voice (''This is a story about being lost in the woods,'' she says), but the story doesn't quite come together, and those zombies -- are they supposed to be a metaphor?
The question may be rhetorical, but it's a question, indicating confusion.
What I think Knight is confused about is not how to read Link's stories generally (the review is in general quite good), but in how to read this one in particular. He's attracted by the bright shiny zombie contingency plans--or rather the shambling zombies--and not looking at the obsessive plan-making, the chance encounters, the focus on certainty and uncertainty and misinterpretation and contingency, which is why he thinks this particular story doesn't come together.
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Date: 2005-08-13 03:17 pm (UTC)Link puts a metafictional twist on the narrative voice (''This is a story about being lost in the woods,'' she says), but the story doesn't quite come together, and those zombies -- are they supposed to be a metaphor?
The question may be rhetorical, but it's a question, indicating confusion.
What I think Knight is confused about is not how to read Link's stories generally (the review is in general quite good), but in how to read this one in particular. He's attracted by the bright shiny zombie contingency plans--or rather the shambling zombies--and not looking at the obsessive plan-making, the chance encounters, the focus on certainty and uncertainty and misinterpretation and contingency, which is why he thinks this particular story doesn't come together.