Status Updates From Cartographie des nuages

Sonmi is much better, and even with the intentionally dry interview format, emotions are coming through from both Sonmi and the archivist.

One blind man with a gun and v. little left to lose. Imagine the mess I could make.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

Vyvyan spurns praise, both giving and receiving it. He says, ‘If people praise you, you’re not walking your own path.’

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

Well, now I’m on Cavendish’s side. Didn’t expect that.

Luisa Rey was fantastic, which makes me wonder - does Mitchell write women better than men? Americans better than Brits? Are the others *supposed* to be insufferable? - but I think trying to come to a conclusion based on such limited data is pointless.

Timothy Cavendish is turning out just as unbearable as two of the other protagonists. He was funny at the beginning, but now he does nothing but whinge. Is that what I’m like, I wonder?

What value are education, breeding, and talent if one doesn’t have a pot to piss in?