u/notjusttired

It feels sorta disconcerting to have this article come up on the guardian while I am in the middle of a Borne re-read lol

I'm re-reading Borne (and the strange bird) and on my first read I don't think I noticed how constantly he uses the phrase and idea of "half in, half out". The weasels in the old man's pot are half in, half out. The dead astronauts are half in, half out. The description of Borne covering Rachel when they're on the room avoiding the kids and the Mord proxies is her half in half out of Borne's pancake shape. There are many other examples. I notice Jeff does this a lot with language in general. He uses the word "wheeling" to describe animals/things in flight quite often. I have noticed many things that he repeats in an almost hypnotic way but somehow hadn't noticed the half in, half out motif on my first read.