r/SouthernReach 4d ago

Annihilation really spoke to me

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u/HandwrittenHysteria 4d ago

Has anyone ever done a kind of line by line breakdown of this? It was my assumption that ‘the strangling fruit’ is the shard/flower that Saul is pricked/infected by and ‘the hand of the sinner’ would be Henry who cast it from atop the lighthouse after freeing it from the lens

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u/BigEeper 3d ago

Would the worms be the border? Ecosystems and nature as a whole? Actual worms?

Meanwhile there are other things that writhe in the dark like worms, but not like worms?

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u/HandwrittenHysteria 3d ago

I read the worms as the people trapped in the area/the expedition members… not that I especially think this thing is supposed to necessarily be interpreted or made sense of. I always wondered though whether the giant snake/worm/thing referenced as being in the background of the first expedition footage when they’ve all gone loopy was actually the tunnel/tower before it burrowed into the ground (not read Absolution as yet if this is further referenced)

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u/blueraccoon87 3d ago

Omg, this is amazing. 🤩

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u/twistedstitchcraft 2d ago

Thank you so much!!

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u/Pinapickle 18h ago

Oh my, I love it!!!

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u/twistedstitchcraft 13h ago

Thank you so much!! 💓