“Books don’t
offer real escape but they can stop a mind from scratching itself raw.”
– David Mitchell, Cloud
Atlas
A little while ago, I mentioned how I was – am –
interested in making connections between books and films, connections that may
be implicit or explicit, thematic, character-based or mood-based, connections
that may or may not make sense to anyone other than me. Like Dirk Gently, I
often feel as though I’ve ‘triangulated the vectors’ and the conclusions have
pointed me towards making these connections whether I’ve been conscious of them
or not. If you were to look at my bookshelf, you’d see a version of this in
practice already:
