Talk:Like A Sickness/@comment-7706473-20130618073534

Готита, свет моей жизни, огонь моих чресел. The second paragraph made me nauseous, even as it drew my attention like a hook in the mouth - I had a hunch I knew what was coming, a hunch that... Actually was broken wide open, because out of all the twists I could've imagined, I never would've guessed what you chose to write - even though hindsight makes it all appear obvious.

The way you used the lore of the particular evolution chain is just fantastic, and playing (preying?) on the readers' perceptions makes a piece like this really snap. Very frightening because of what the reader expects, and because of how it paints the world of Pokemon, and super effective because it toys with both of those perceptions. And again, the little embellishments using lore from the various pokedex entries on the Goth*family of evolution just work great.

Unrelated but present all the same, my favorite Nabokov work is Speak, Memory and I think it's a crying shame it is one of the least read of his work.