mari 24/08/2021
these cells may look fairly normal, but they are not.
a escrita da sally rooney é uma benção, mas essa história foi curta demais pra entender ou ligar para os personagens que ela trabalhou. a diferença de idade também me incomodou. contudo, gostei *muito* dessa passagem: "i stood with my elbows on the bridge, my blood-formation system working as usual, my cells maturing and dying at a normal rate. nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level i knew that. still, i had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around me, as if death was more of a miracle than life was."