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hurtcomfortforeveryone · 2 months

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Nelson is a beast, Nelson is a bastard, Nelson is an asshole. This is a documented fact, and I'm not going to argue with it. But I am still tormented by the question, why don't we send the same amount of hate rays to Divan Umarov?

Of course, there is some progress in this direction, but I think he deserves ten times more people's anger than Nelson.

Then there is a retelling of impressions from "undivided", it seems without spoilers, but still I warn you.

And spoilers for "unbound", I completely forgot.

I do not know how to express it, but the rest of the Unwind villains at least look like people. Do they know that they kill and hurt? Someone knows, but he do it because he have a sick self-esteem and he feel better seeing how someone "right" and "clean" is helpless in front of him. Someone also has a sick self-esteem, and he pushes morality far away in favor of the thought "I deserve good luck and luxury," although more recently unwinding was a sore topic for him.

(And someone drives that thought away because it's her job, but still brings at least something good to the world, because would any of the Unwinds want to be alone in the last hours?)

These are awful people, but they are people. With vices brought to the highest point, but such as you can understand.

And the Divan is like a chthonic deity, completely blind and deaf to everything human. Like Solaris. But Solaris is simply unknowable and alien, and the Divan is unknowable, alien and dismembers children.

These are not eyes blurred by cruelty, and not eyes deliberately closed so as not to be tormented by conscience - these are eyes that have hardly ever been opened. This is a man who has lost his boundaries so much from his impunity that you, although just a reader, feel fear very close to disgust.

Like, you got to the core, to a kind of beginning of the chain. Here he is, a man who benefits from unwinding and trades in child deaths. He inspires others that this is a good thing, because he needs others to be believed in it. But he himself must know that he is lying, because there is simply no one above him anymore, right?

But then you look closer and see that he is so disconnected from reality that this thought is simply inaccessible to him.

"Connor, understand, I'm not your enemy" - wow, how can you even make such a thing if you have a sane mind? From the mouth of another character, it would sound stupid, but from the mouth of the Divan, it gives you goosebumps.

Because it would never occur to him to try on other people's feelings - not only Unwinds, but people in principle. Because a person who is able to buy literally everything and bring to life any perversions will never be in the place of someone else, and he is subconsciously sure of this. He has simply indecent power, which is available, God forbid, to one thousandth of a percent, but expects others to understand him for some reason. Because everyone always adapts to him, and it lasts so long that from a whim it became almost a law of nature in his mind.

Speaking of disconnection from reality… When I read to the moment when he tells Risa bullshit like "here are the capsules, teenagers sleep in them in euphoria and do not suffer," I was like, "well, damn… Maybe it's not so bad as harvesting camps, at least not to go crazy from the realization of your complete helplessness." But then guess what, yes, that's right, because it's so humane and compassionate to wake up children before they die! An engineer of human souls, bitch.

And then he's like, "but at least I didn't choose the path of evil, like my family or like Da Zey". Ugh, fuck! A life hack for your note: choose the most complete scumbags as your equal, and then, proudly demonstrating your moral superiority over them, continue to do things that are absolutely immoral from beginning to end (but a little less than your role models (crossed out) colleagues).

If this was a pathetic attempt to whitewash himself, with the understanding that in fact it is a falsehood and sophistry, then I would not be so angry. But that's the horror of it, that he really believes in this excuse!

And yes, the "Unknown Quantity" did not help me in any way to see in him some more ambiguous character. Or rather… What is considered an ambiguity? Yes, the character definitely makes you feel emotions, rather than rolling your eyes at his cliched nature. I think it's noticeable to me, and yes, it's the moments from "undivided" with Divan that kept me awake at 2 AM.

But some form of "maybe he had a reason to become like that?" - no. Just no.

And in the scene with his cruel and moody nephew, it's not just the nephew that pisses me off. "He was a terrible teenager with sadistic tendencies. If he is now happy to tell you how he "unwound" the dog, what will happen next? That's why I unwound him - as a punishment. And then I did it with a bunch of kids, most of whom didn't do anything to get to the unwinding, but it's not so important anymore."

Fuck you. Touch the fucking grass outside of your private plane, maybe something human will wake up in your soul.

The only thing that could add ambiguity and depth to him is death. And even this is not a fact.

#unwind #unwind dystology #divan umarov #net blyat' rulon oboev #seriously what guided Shusterman in choosing a name #the translator interprets it as a sofa #“And the Sofa is like a chthonic deity...” (c)

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