** spoiler alert ** 
 The writer has fully accomplished what he set out to do. It's mesmerizing, strange, moving. The allegory between the declining earth and the declining marriage (and in real life: the spreading cancer of Faber's wife) was almost too much to handle for my body and soul. The growing distance in connection and understanding between husband and wife felt like galaxies away. Which it was. This left and still leaves me breathless. 
 4,5/5 just a tiny tad too long.