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"What happened?" "The British, keep up" is one of those lines that teeters on the edge of being *too* on-the-nose, but... mostly because it's truthful. Trying not to be the metaphorical hit dog that hollers, as a Scot - we were absolutely complicit in the Empire and its atrocities, even while ourselves being regarded as inferior to / by the English.
— Jan 17, 2026 05:51PM
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I want to pat Robin on his oblivious little head sometimes. "How can someone as clever as you be so stupid" and such.
Minor nitpick, but the recurrence of the phrase "kid brother" is getting to me a bit. Fairly sure that's a modern Americanism, rather than something a late-Georgian / Victorian Englishman would use. At least, I've never heard "kid sibling" in modern UK vernacular.
— Jan 22, 2026 10:13AM
Minor nitpick, but the recurrence of the phrase "kid brother" is getting to me a bit. Fairly sure that's a modern Americanism, rather than something a late-Georgian / Victorian Englishman would use. At least, I've never heard "kid sibling" in modern UK vernacular.
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I have bookclub for this on Sundayyyy... I am *never* gonna finish it 😩
it's kind of an odd experience, rereading this but barely recalling anything from the first time round - I'm never sure whether I'm constructing a theory about where the plot is going or remembering what actually happens. At the moment I'm suspecting that everybody in the cohort is Hermes but none of them know the others are.
— Jan 21, 2026 02:34PM
it's kind of an odd experience, rereading this but barely recalling anything from the first time round - I'm never sure whether I'm constructing a theory about where the plot is going or remembering what actually happens. At the moment I'm suspecting that everybody in the cohort is Hermes but none of them know the others are.
