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challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Narrating your own episode of madness while lucid must be quite an unnerving experience. Sure, we’ve all been there somewhat – who amongst us hasn’t looked back at actions done in times of intense emotional distress and gone, “Wow, I can’t believe I did that?” You know it’s you and at the same time, it’s not you. It’s a reflection of yourself, another you who wears the same skin and has the same eyes and is almost a perfect duplicate. The way Leonora Carrington describes her duplicate’s descent into momentary insanity sticks out because of how clinical it is – there is no justification, no pontificating, just cold, hard facts about what she felt and thought, and why she felt this and thought it. I do feel like the passage of time between the events and the recollection, and how fully Carrington commits to presenting just the facts, lessen the emotional intensity of the story – it reads not like a diary, which is what I was expecting, and more just like a patient file. Still, for how long it is, it makes an interesting read.