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SL Day 37
My sleep pattern is shot again, and the news is depressing. I see Henning Mankell was on the flotilla intercepted by the Israeli. The Israeli state depresses me, especially in the dealings with Palestine. Every time I hear an Israeli spokesperson it turns out that it wasn't their fault, and it was some bastard doing it to them. Sometimes it must be their fault. I gather that it would all come down to proportionality as the flotilla was in international waters; it didn't look or sound proportional to me. Meanwhile, reading old newspapers, I see it was David Laws who didn't appear on Question Time due to Alastair Campbell appearing to promote his new book represent Labour. I wonder if we were spun on the excuse, given the story which then broke?
Some reading on Robert Silverberg - all Extrapolation so far - and a cheat count...
LXXXV: Heinrich von Kleist, "Michael Kohlhaas (From an old chronicle)" (1810)
Intertext for Ragtime: Kohlhaas is forced to pay an illegal tax for horse trading, and then virtually starts a war in search of compensation. You can see that this was something that Doctorow has taken the bones of - he adds the racial element, although the original clearly has something about Prussian/German/Polish? nationalities - and the cameos from Martin Luther offers the interaction with real and fictional characters.
LXXXVI: Robert Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)
Fantasy about the restoration of a rightful heir. Throughout it is the problem that the wrong heir is on the throne, not that this is a hierarchical society. The juggling is still interesting. There's a wider sfnal framing, which adds a little flavour. I guess I liked this better at 16...
Some reading on Robert Silverberg - all Extrapolation so far - and a cheat count...
LXXXV: Heinrich von Kleist, "Michael Kohlhaas (From an old chronicle)" (1810)
Intertext for Ragtime: Kohlhaas is forced to pay an illegal tax for horse trading, and then virtually starts a war in search of compensation. You can see that this was something that Doctorow has taken the bones of - he adds the racial element, although the original clearly has something about Prussian/German/Polish? nationalities - and the cameos from Martin Luther offers the interaction with real and fictional characters.
LXXXVI: Robert Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)
Fantasy about the restoration of a rightful heir. Throughout it is the problem that the wrong heir is on the throne, not that this is a hierarchical society. The juggling is still interesting. There's a wider sfnal framing, which adds a little flavour. I guess I liked this better at 16...