12/8/2023 0 Comments To kill a kingdom epubUnlike sirens, mermaids have stretched blue husks and limbs in place of hair, with a jawlessness that lets their mouths stretch to the size of small boats and swallow sharks whole. Mermaids more fish than flesh, with an upper body to match the decadent scales of their fins. These are the women who take the human bounty of their kin. Left to suffer until their blood becomes salt and they dissolve to sea foam. I’ve heard things: tales of lost hearts and harpooned women stapled to the ocean bed as punishment for their treachery. Hearts are power, and if there’s one thing my kind craves more than the ocean, it’s power. I count each of them, so I can be sure none were stolen in the night. Every so often, I claw through the shingle, just to check they’re still there. There are seventeen hidden in the sand of my bedroom. “.the fate of hopes is always to breed more hopes, which is why, despite so many disappointments, they have not yet died out in the world.I HAVE A HEART for every year I’ve been alive. ![]() “.the fate of hopes is always to breed more hopes, which is why, despite so many disappointments, they have not yet died out in the world.” There is soaring prose prising open some truth, followed by dead ends of in logically delivered information. Saramago’s style is packed with contradictions which make reading his novels so rewarding: for example a complete lack of detail concerning where, when, to whom these events take place, but masses of conjecture about what a dog might have said if its owner would have asked it something. The second half with one individual who, once death starts to occur again, manages to avoid dying, and the personification of death herself.Īs usual the actual story is just the bones on which Saramago builds to entertain the reader – and this is a salient point about the author’s writing stance: You are very definitely a reader and the narrator is at pains to fulfil his role and only to keen to point out when he doesn’t. The first concerns itself with the societal implications of deaths ceasing to happen. Saramago is in good form in this novel of two halves. ![]() “One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.” To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. ![]() We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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