While Candide is giving me emotional and philosophical whiplash, I still am loving it.
There are many brilliant points made amid the satire and strangeness. The constant battle cry of Pangloss and his follower Candide, "all things are for the best" Is countered almost immediately after it is said each time by various disasters of the physical and natural kind. Yet somehow this philosophy has kept our main character alive thus far.
The rate at which the story is going was originally frustrating and dizzying, but now I like it. In a sense it conveys the rate at which life happens. The rate at which nonsensical suffering happens.
I'm not sure what to make of the work as a whole just yet, however I'm liking it thus far.
P.S. I commented on Abbey's.
That's so true! Although they live in a world that requires practical abilities, it is those that seemingly lack them who survive.
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