This quite frankly is one of the most confusing stories I've yet read in my entire life. Although, after reading it a third time. I think it can have a little sense made out of it. Then again... perhaps it is just so crazy that you can make almost any point out of it, kinda like prophecies which are so vague that you can apply them to some situation that happens. I digress...
What I could get out of it is that it would appear Kessell is satirizing the internet and people's addiction to it. How everything now is based on charge which must then mean everything is electronic. For example, in today's society, people hate their jobs but love returning home to see their facebook, their tv, their video games, browse the web, youtube, etc. This is similar, but to a crazy whacked out extent.
As to the characters... I dunno, I couldnt make heads or tails (pun not intended) out of them.
Edit: Actually after reading it a fourth time (I know, it seems im obsessed, but cant help it as it is like a mystery needing to be solved). It makes me think of a video game. And the characters in it are characters in a game. I had this thought when I re-read "weekend skin". And a "skin" is a term for the physical look of something you see in a game, the picture if you will.
Anyone else have any opinions on this story?
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Your first sentence made me burst out in laughter. You should have seen my face after I read this story.
ReplyDeleteI thought maybe they were in some simulation game, mainly because of a comment made at the end I believe about going back to reality.
I had no idea what was going on in this story. My first thought was that they were robots or something, but the duck didn't really work with that theory. A simulation makes the most sense.
ReplyDeleteIf it was a simulation, why did the girl decide to be a duck?
A few phrases in the story suggested that skins are traded for some sort of currency, like gold or experience points are traded for upgraded skills and items in most games.
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