Ness

Interesting little interlude of a book. I think I'll enjoy mulling it over more than I did actually reading it. Not a bad trade, the book was short and time is long.

Strange and uncomfortable. A poetic juxtaposition between nature and mans folly, the power of time and the military industrial complex. I can appreciate what the book is trying to achieve and it certainly is unsettling. Not something I would read usually and I am glad for the change

I’ve never been to (Orford) Ness, but through this text, and the couple of Wikipedia searches I did to help me through it, I feel like In know the place; like I was there this morning as I read.

I don’t read poetry or fiction very often, but I do read natural history. Ness felt ‚adjacent’. A natural(!) next step. I’ll reread the descriptions of it, he, she, they, as many times I expect…