Angela Glansbury 🚽Dec 7, 2022

Bricklaying in prose ranked:

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
On Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think Poe has bricklaying in a few stories but I just picked out one. Sorry about any bricklaying I'm forgetting about.

Show threadAngela Glansbury 🚽Dec 7, 2022
Just mentioning the bricklaying in The Chrysalids is a significant spoiler. I lolled when the reveal came.
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I'd like to see all the trades represented in prose.

Over-represented: private investigators, clowns, postal workers

Under-represented: roofers

Dec 7, 2022 at 11:40amWeb
Show threadWillDec 7, 2022
@floppyplopper how can you say this when there is a whole band called “the postal service “?
Show threadAngela Glansbury 🚽Dec 7, 2022
@Will
About postal workers I said _over-represented_ Off the top of my head; The Postman by David Brin, The Great And Secret Show by Clive Barker, Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono