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When someone is that calm in a crisis, either they don’t know what’s happening, or you don’t.

The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley

October 19, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Suffering doesn’t make people good or noble. A little bit gives them perspective. A lot turns them cruel, and too much – you get a murder or a marvel, and neither of those are really people any more. ― Natasha Pulley, The Hymn to Dionysus His duty was hurting him, and this is the medicine, and the only reason you think that’s unreasonable is that your duty has hurt you much more, there never was medicine for you, and you don’t see why other people […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Ancient Greece, cbr17bingo, Depression, duty, greek myths, hearing impaired, lgbtq characters, military, Natasha Pulley, ptsd, queer romance, Slavery, suicidal ideation, Troy

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:34 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Ancient Greece, cbr17bingo, Depression, duty, greek myths, hearing impaired, lgbtq characters, military, Natasha Pulley, ptsd, queer romance, Slavery, suicidal ideation, Troy ·
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quiet duty, questionable faith, and children taking on the burdens of their parents

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

April 15, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

I’d remembered of course that I should be grateful as always, but hadn’t been able to keep the disappointment from my mind. Kazuo Ishiguro, the master of suffering with dignity, is back with another literary gut-punch. There is no one else who handles quietly doomed duty quite like him. Klara is alive, but not entirely. She is an AF: a robotic companion for disconnected children. She lives in a shop window where she strives to please the Manager. She hopes to bask in the nourishing […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: artificial intelligence, duty, ethics of artificial life, genetic engineering, Kazuo Ishiguro, Love, near future, never let me go, remains of the day

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: artificial intelligence, duty, ethics of artificial life, genetic engineering, Kazuo Ishiguro, Love, near future, never let me go, remains of the day ·
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