Abram > Recent Status Updates

Things I am remembering/relearning/learning

- Zeus is really that guy
- More controversially, Agamemnon: Also Really That Guy
- Every story of sufficient breadth requires a Nestor
- It’s actually very possible to write spare, brutal violence - longer descriptions of violence feel a lot more like sadistic decadence now
- Easiest path to immortality is to have a really famous guy kill you

Yay!

FAIRY TALE

Roland’s interiority is extremely dull, let’s get back to the action

Hell yeah, desecrate those graves

I LOVE Îles Flotantes and am APPALLED at this similarity betwixt myself and Roland

I assume Euan is pronounced Jeff or something like that

PLEASE let Val leave Roland this chapter

The cultural imperialism thing has to be wink wink nudge nudge right?

Events in depth

This can’t be right! Mark Zuckerberg invented young people not having enough attention span to tackle anything even slightly outside their own milieu in the early 2000s!

Yes, we used to have that book here. Yes, it was destroyed in the Blitz. Yes, it is valuable beyond price. No, we have not attempted to replace it in the half century since.

Aaaaaaaaaaah

Cropper is admirable in that he embodies the American concept that you can actually just fix most problems with money

This is taking hell is ither people to new heights

If the intervening 30 years have taught us anything it is that Leonora Stern almost certainly has no Native American ancestry

If he’s never had sex with his wife is she actually his wife?

Tiiiiiiime juuuuuuuump

The optimal level of wealth for any society is juuuuuuuuust before the point where Roland’s white room because feasible enough to be attractive to young men

Maud, my friend, Leonora does not want a charm with “Friendship” on it from you.

If they can do it, I can do it too.

These poor saps

Plaster and lathe partition? Not gonna be enough I fear

“How dreadful…” Buddy if you are not ready to sleep with the Green Witch on your trip up north, don’t go! We can always get another knight.

eeeeeeeverybody wants Maud

Page Six for Expired Whites

“Some are buried with her” Well we all know where THIS is going

Just leave her man

“Feminists do…” You are going to have to be more specific. Perhaps the latest example of a word rendered almost entirely meaningless by diffusion.

I will not tell a lie, skipped a lot of these poems and letters, but with reason!

I am often desperately happy that I didn’t have to experience the 90s.