Status Updates From Orlandó : ævisaga

Chapter 1 of 6 done, which ends with a terrifying (and funny?) scene of a great frost breaking.

Also, some wonderful names in play: Princess Marousha Stanilovska Dagmar Natasha Iliana Romanovitch and Lady Margaret O'Brien O'Dare O'Reilly Tyrconnel.

All I gotta say is Orlando is now in the twentieth century, I'm guess roaring 20's ish. And our humble narrator describes it as overwhelming, as having too many contradictory ideas, as accelerating too quickly... Well, I'd avoid the 21st century like the plague Orlando, or the pandemic as it were...

il genio nella carrozza come un faro da cui non si può essere guidati perchè imprevedibile e i lampioni per strada che danno brevi momenti di chiarezza intellettuale e poi, una volta sorpassati, ci lasciano al buio delle illusioni e dell’immaginazione

Waterstones Book Club choice for July.