a review of

Not like Architecton at all, and yet I couldn't stop thinking in the abstract about how they sort of compliment each other in a way. In Architecton, man ravages the earth for man's sake, Earth be damned. It's a bit of Man vs. Nature that turns into Man vs. Self when one is brought to reckon with decisions made in life. In Qâf, Earth vomits up its molten lava core destroying its surface, only to rebuild itself and start anew, perhaps in a way that mankind might, push come shove. Or maybe I'm just rambling and have no idea what I'm talking about and it's all just the Blanket Truth all the time, or an Elliott Smith song, or a Skyrizi commercial. (When I started writing this, I felt like this was a 2 or 2.5, but - would you look at that! - I rambled my way up to a 3; mind over matters.)