Helena’s Reviews > George Falls Through Time > Status Update

Who needs the oath-like balance of exertion and reward when all you need is a charger, free Wi-Fi, free re-fills, annual leave. What chance does the miracle of a hedgerow have against the splendor of an EasyJet flight to Spain, an arrow shooting across the sky chock-full of manchildren plugged in and streaming—airplane not just an airplane but a flying phone charger.

…the world out there and the placement of ourselves within it…was all that mattered, and that if sodomy was a sin then it was a sin like all the others in the sense that sin was a sign of caution, a warning that served as a guardrail between our world and whatever greater thing lay beyond it, both in unknowable great joy and unattainable great peril, and the timeless, crushing responsibility of devotional love…

The air was sweet with sound, manure, herbs, rot, fruity fragrance, animal hair. There was no car exhaust, no petrol fumes, no plastic waste lining the river. Yes, there were decapitated, mutilated human heads on spikes hung across the entrance to the City - that was a shocking thing to see…but people passing the display all shared the same wincing, perplexed reaction as me. It was all still a shared humanity.