Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
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And just like that, I’ve finished Pure Colour by Sheila Heti! An initial thought I had was that it reminded me a lot of the movie “Everything, Everywhere All At Once” (if you’ve seen the movie let me know!) with its abstractions and thinking about ontological form.
There were some moments in there that really struck a cord within me: “perhaps because the most crucial perspective on her life had never been hers at all;” “my basic premise is that in life, you live forever, because as soon as you die, you don’t realize you’re dead, so you’re kind of always alive, so the thing is, you shouldn’t worry about yourself.”
Heti has essentially assembled these vulnerable, stream-of-consciousness-type thoughts into a larger commentary on our very state of being. If this is, indeed, a product of the mere “first draft” [of life], we should certainly expect to have high hopes for the second one!
