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64. Embodied Time: Mark Z. Danielewski's Tom's Crossing and Zoroastrianism
This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.
In the beginning of Big Fiction, there were encyclopedic novels and mega-novels and then maximal novels. With Mark Z. Danielewski’s newest, the 1,232-page Tom’s Crossing, we have the supermax, a term most commonly used to describe huge prisons with no escape, no variety of existence, and few relations with the outside world. Prison critics call supermax facilities, with their frequent solitary confinement, excessively inhumane.
- Tom LeClair, Los Angeles Review of Books
The Zoroastrian conception of time, whether lineal or spiral, gave value…
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