Michele’s Reviews > The Last Man > Status Update

Well, there it is then: the Last Man sets sail with his dog. (Really, you'd think he'd know better than to trust a boat, though. ) Now I can go back and read the introduction without fear of spoilers!

"Oh! Grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives it's own colours to all."

Noooo! Don't go in the boat!!

"Men love a prop so well that they will lean on a pointed poisoned spear..."

The Countess is back again! She's like a bad penny, or gum on the bottom of your shoe.

oh ffs...

The title appears in the text! In ALL CAPS so you can't miss it.

"The last blessing of humanity was wrested from us: we might no longer hope." Grim stuff...

Aha. I was wondering what had happened to the unpleasant Countess, and here she is, still nasty. One wonders how she managed to get to Windsor from Gernany, what with the plague and all.

Ah, not Philadelphia -- Africa and the Middle East, eternal scapegoats: "Child of the sun and nursling of the tropics...[plague] drinks the blood of the inhabitant of the South, but it never feasts on the pale-faced Celt." O rly?