I cannot fully form my thoughts on this first impression as it left me with more questions than answers. Typically, I know within the first few pages enough about a story to make an assumption about its contents. However, King continuously left me puzzled and perplexed, much like her description of the house, wiring, and “boxes” that things seemed to “fit” or not “fit into.
There are philosophical, psychological, and dystopian themes running rampant. King does a great job of using a unique writing style to lay emphasis on the motion of energy and time, and their connection to people and actions. King uses poetry, patterned in a way that is similar to a mathematical equation. Like a path of meaning, similarly like code written for computational linguistics. One poetry line of meaning tends to precede the other and in turn, a force of energy precedes the intended outcome.
I’ve made several new hypotheses about the characters, time, and how psychology fits into the equation. Time as a construct is technical, void of emotion, data, and based on mathematical equations. King introduces, the character “Tru” (also interesting as narrators are usually untrustworthy) who tries to frame understand the future/present through an emotional lens for understanding the “new” world. It is through this lens that Tru and her group devoted to understanding psychology, present psychology theories as representations of time perception. Each represents their lens like traditional time i.e. “technical and data” savy. Tru is someone who presents on emotion but seems to be void of it. This is where it gets interesting. Tru, her father, and brother seem as if they’ve just “woke” into the time void which is both eerie and confusing. I'm ready to see what happens.
There are philosophical, psychological, and dystopian themes running rampant. King does a great job of using a unique writing style to lay emphasis on the motion of energy and time, and their connection to people and actions. King uses poetry, patterned in a way that is similar to a mathematical equation. Like a path of meaning, similarly like code written for computational linguistics. One poetry line of meaning tends to precede the other and in turn, a force of energy precedes the intended outcome.
I’ve made several new hypotheses about the characters, time, and how psychology fits into the equation. Time as a construct is technical, void of emotion, data, and based on mathematical equations. King introduces, the character “Tru” (also interesting as narrators are usually untrustworthy) who tries to frame understand the future/present through an emotional lens for understanding the “new” world. It is through this lens that Tru and her group devoted to understanding psychology, present psychology theories as representations of time perception. Each represents their lens like traditional time i.e. “technical and data” savy. Tru is someone who presents on emotion but seems to be void of it. This is where it gets interesting. Tru, her father, and brother seem as if they’ve just “woke” into the time void which is both eerie and confusing. I'm ready to see what happens.