4.0

The art in Seek You has a still life quality which reminds me of the art in Crash Course by Woodrow Phoenix. More disturbing than I expected, especially the separation & socialization part, and the part with Harry Harlow torturing monkeys. This book is also more personal than I expected. Some of the sections seem to take the form of news reports from the world of loneliness or maybe “loneliness HQ”. The part with Harry Harlow experimenting on monkeys reminded me of some of the more disturbing Joe Frank episodes I’ve heard. I’m a little sad that Radtke left out the 2nd half of William Mason’s quote about Harlow (“It's as if he sat down and said, 'I'm only going to be around another ten years. What I'd like to do, then, is leave a great big mess behind.' If that was his aim, he did a perfect job”), but I guess it would be kind of hard to work that in. Of course the most disturbing aspect of Seek You was how familiar it all is; I didn’t want to recognize as much of myself in this book as I did.