Chapters 15 & 16 are free-to-read for A FERTILE SOURCE OF RUIN, my wartime space opera inspired by Thucydides. Each post includes historical reflection and a story summary. Today we talk about the uncanny similarity of an old incident threatening greater war. (History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes!)
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... foreclosed on. Berg has proposed to Vera, and the Count and Countess grant approval, but only because Vera has received no other offers. Berg postures and inflates his wartime exploits. Berg has made careful thought about his finances, and bluntly asks Count Rostov what the dowry is to be....
Especially when the more popular wartime general is likely to win!! Itās only logical to fire him and cancel the election! Why should the public decide? How quaint! Tried that in 2014 and the result was unacceptable so NATO-backed Nazis had to do some assassinations to shake up the place!
In many nations the election is delayed in wartime. How do you have an election when 1/4 of your country is under siege?
"ex-Google CEO turned AI-centric weapons dealer says screw the climate, my murderbots need energy to power their wartime rampages" is pretty on the nose and if anything I'm only surprised Mark Zuckerberg didn't say it first.
Also watching it (itās a Sunday night show innit) and Iām deeply enjoying Tristan with his dashing wartime moustache
ALT: a man in a suit is standing next to a woman in a red shirt with the name jordan on it .
The lavish descriptions of food in the Narnia books make more sense when you know about wartime rationing. And the 2005 movie of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe opens with an air raid on London to explain why the kids were evacuated in the first place. Unnecessary in the book in 1950.
Hereās to āpumpkin spice- Wartime-burn it all down-election-hurricane seasonā š¤
"sees the ruins of postwar Japan exposed to a monstrous restaging of wartime trauma": Takashi Yamazakiās superlative kaiju prequel GODZILLA MINUS ONE/MINUS COLOR screens 11am today at Beyond Fest. Review for SciFiNow www.scifinow.co.uk/cinema/godzi...
Takashi Yamazakiās kaiju prequel sees the ruins of postwar Japan exposed to a monstrous restaging of wartime trauma.