Spent Light (2024)

By Lara Pawson

135pp, Fiction

Rating:3/5

Notes

2024-11-30

I didn't get into this one as much as This Is The Place To Be which I liked enogh to buy for a couple of people. It's kind of a psychogeography thing but with objects instead of places, everything freighted with meaning, the longer Pawson looks at things the more stories and memories and associations unfurl. Whilst I wasn't enthralled it was interesting to me specifically because I find the opposite; the more I stare at stuff the more it seems to loose meaning and asscocation. Kind of like semantic-satiation, after a while things just turn into shapes and light and dark and what they "are" or "mean" evaporates.

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