I found the first half of Julian Aguon’s The Properties of Perpetual Light extremely interesting. One aspect that stood out to me was the relationship that Aguon crafts between death and time. I found this particularly interesting in the context of our recent conversations in class. A specific instance that caught my attention occurs in the section titled “Yugo Means Yoke.” In this section, Aguon details his mindset the night before the death of his father. Talking about how he just wanted to experience a normal Halloween, Aguon writes, “I was dying to get out of there, dying to breathe some other aid, dying to have just a little bit of fun. But of course it was my dad who was dying”(33). Here, Aguon presents an interesting notion on how the way that one perceives death changes as they grow older. From the perspective of a child, Aguon simply wanted to live in the moment, not realizing the magnitude of what was occurring around him. Now, writing t...
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