BBC2 on a Wednesday night in 1983. I am an elitist and I think this was better.
Naomi Alderman
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Novels (eg The Power), games (eg Zombies, Run!), now TV. Unorthodox Jew. I can electrocute people with the power of my mind.
As of today, my Japanese is at that appalling level where, combined with the name Naomi, I’m able to ask short questions in Japanese sufficiently convincingly that I get an answer in Japanese which I have no hope of understanding.
Anyway, the sky very much is the colour of a television tuned to a dead channel.
Have to admire the honesty of this packaging of some Black Cod sashimi from The Fish Society. Still not sure I massively fancy eating it now?
To be clear, I’m loving the game Pentiment.
I’m not *entirely* sure this is the best way to describe the Venetian Ghetto, however. The Wikipedia article starts more accurately with a sentence including “the Jews were forced to live”.
One has many decisions as a writer about these things. In this case I might go for:
1) just not mention it.
2) just accept the historical reality that everyone would be pleased horrid Jews were “contained”.
3) have a “good” character give a gloss.
I’m not *entirely* sure this is the best way to describe the Venetian Ghetto, however. The Wikipedia article starts more accurately with a sentence including “the Jews were forced to live”.
One has many decisions as a writer about these things. In this case I might go for:
1) just not mention it.
2) just accept the historical reality that everyone would be pleased horrid Jews were “contained”.
3) have a “good” character give a gloss.
It needs that music from Jeff Wayne’s War of the World’s at the end of this chapter. “Slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us. <da da dummmmm>”
It is, as they say, morning in America*
(*yes I know, I know. But these words are really great words even if used to support someone I don’t like. I’m not letting them have the concept of “morning”.)
(*yes I know, I know. But these words are really great words even if used to support someone I don’t like. I’m not letting them have the concept of “morning”.)
Fairy doors in trees in Donegal.
Wonderful that the local Irish government is creating protected zones for fairy habitats; England has already lost so many species of native fairies.
