A Review of Recursion by Blake Crouch

Can you trust your own memory?

You live in your own perspective;

the end is death.

Recursion is life inside a circle.

Barry and Helena remember.

Using Helena’s machine

 

life becomes death becomes life becomes the machine.

Recursion is life inside “False Memory

Syndrome”; try to remember

the same story from a different perspective;

try to pause the cartwheeling circle

of science: fiction and death.

 

Would you choose death

by machine

to restart the circle

of your memory?

To live a new life with a new perspective

and still remember

 

everything? What if you could remember

your own death?

Barry and Helena slip perspectives

with each use of the machine

the plot becomes a muscle-memory.

They must break out of (the circle)

 

(the cycle). The psychological sharks circle;

the world is blood in the water. Remember,

all we are is memory;

the end is always death.

We are all machines

with living perspectives.

 

Turn a page, remember a new perspective.

Turn a page, strap into the memory machine.

Recursion is just life circling sudden death.