A Note About a Novel II
Jun. 11th, 2016 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineOne of the things that works about Windswept for me is there's this one aspect to the protagonist, Padma Mehta, that hits home...
...her mental health issues. They're a bit on the extreme side, mind you, as I never underwent long-haul hibernation, on the order of two or more years. And more than likely, the part about being left unable to dream is never going to happen to me. I do dream.
But the part about the Fear - an "anti-conscience", if you will, and more specifically, a concentrated form of all the impulses to self-loathe, self-isolate, almost to the point of paralysis or catatonia? It's exaggerated for effect, perhaps, but not so far as to put it outside of the realm of the believable for me.
The Fear is all too believable. And it makes Padma someone I can have empathy for.
So there's that.
...her mental health issues. They're a bit on the extreme side, mind you, as I never underwent long-haul hibernation, on the order of two or more years. And more than likely, the part about being left unable to dream is never going to happen to me. I do dream.
But the part about the Fear - an "anti-conscience", if you will, and more specifically, a concentrated form of all the impulses to self-loathe, self-isolate, almost to the point of paralysis or catatonia? It's exaggerated for effect, perhaps, but not so far as to put it outside of the realm of the believable for me.
The Fear is all too believable. And it makes Padma someone I can have empathy for.
So there's that.
