Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Great Regulars: On [Brenda] Shaughnessy goes, leaping

from one bodily dilemma to another. But once you've decided that "Parthenogenesis" is just a darkly humorous catalog of the many ways in which we fool ourselves, she ups the stakes in the last four lines, where she says, in effect, that what we'd all really like to do is destroy ourselves and put a new person in our place who happens to be just like us. This idea of the divided self is not a new one, but Shaughnessy shows there's life in the old story yet.

from David Kirby: The New York Times: Cracking Wise

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