It’s just such an ‘I fell into another universe’ book

Shout outs also to reading War and Peace in a hammock in Nicaragua, Infinite Jest on the beach in Zanzibar, The Luminaries in various tea shops in Darjeeling, the Sentence in a friend’s armchair on New Year’s Day with multiple cups of tea.

Ohhh 🥰

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I spent one Christmas and Boxing Day devouring Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, a lot of it sitting in our good kitchen chair with my feet up on the Aga while occasionally checking on the state of our dinners.

I know I need to read the Scolding Report, but ooof it is making for a miserable Sunday evening. ⚓️ #cofe

Oh they were ALL on the sheet this week.

It me, wildly swapping out the Revelation refs in the sermon for Genesis ones because the message about readings didn’t get through. Sorry St Michael. ⚓️ #CofE

And perhaps in some ways that’s healthy, even normal, to have friends you check in and pick up with from time to time, and the distance doesn’t matter-but when media is continuously selling you on the normality of the ‘friend group’ (see ‘Friends’ as a millennial core text) it doesn’t feel it.

(ILU, Pompeius Magnus)

On this day, Pompey the Great was murdered on Ptolemy XIII’s orders. As Pompey came ashore at Alexandria, one of his former soldiers Lucius Septimius met him & feigning friendship, stabbed him in the guts & later beheaded the corpse. We don’t know Lucius’ fate. Here is Pompey with his famous quiff