In "Brazzaville Beach," as in his other work, Boyd, born in Ghana and educated in Scotland, France and England, sets off a domino effect of visual and psychological associations that lead the reader from richly drawn, easily pictured images of the natural world into a labyrinth of murky emotions.
Though Franzen mocks himself for playing at Robinson Crusoe, this is essentially a solemn, somber essay, and a flawed one — too attenuated for the redemption it mechanically delivers (mission accomplished: he cries and sprinkles the ashes), too truncated to process all the murky emotions that lie beneath the surface.
We still don't know if those things that we feel (our complex and murky emotions) are innately human.
Still, as in last year's "Source Code," there are moments when developments grow murky, particularly regarding emotions.
The ethics are clear, yet the emotions can seem murky.
Beyond that, it's murky, and interpretations are often colored by emotion.
There's some poignant quality of human emotion that resonates through the swirling, murky drones.
My year was spent in a biopsychology lab at this murky, opposite end of the control spectrum, studying emotion regulation.
I used some of my favorite instruments, the 303, the 909 and the Minimoog to create two tracks full of murky, distorted vocals, strange breaks and pure drastic emotion in beat form.
After murky rumblings in the strings, the Fugue depicts the conflict between reason and emotion.
The clear awareness of tragedy is the sort of emotion that can clarify a debate that has been muddled by murky fears.
