![]() ![]() According to NASA, it makes up about 27%, while 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter, for example, does not account for three-quarters of the universe. Whatever the case, a lot of the “information” Tokarczuk presents in her book is just flat-out wrong. (She marvels at the online, collaborative encyclopaedia more than once in Flights.) It seems that Tokarczuk did a fair bit of consulting of Wikipedia and who knows what other sources to create her book. ![]() ![]() It’s a collection of loosely connected stories (many of them inconclusive), anecdotes, facts, a lot of pseudo facts (information that masquerades as having a foundation in reality), ruminations, and attempts at playfulness, cleverness-some of them self-conscious or self-referential. As advertised, it is not a traditional or conventional novel-perhaps not a novel at all. This is a fragmented, chaotic, and even careless book roughly organized around the topics of travel and anatomy. I’d like to have more to show for my time than I do. While I don’t exactly regret reading it-which is something, I suppose, I was far less impressed with it than most. This is a book that demands a lot of mental work and, at slightly more than 400 pages, a considerable time investment. ![]()
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