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February 12 - February 18, 2022
Gilchrist and Latimer were coming. “… hope Ms. Engle has the opportunity to observe a death,” Gilchrist was saying. “Attitudes toward death in the 1300s differed greatly from ours. Death was a common and accepted part of life, and the contemps were incapable of feeling loss or grief.”
Can’t wait for this guy to be proven horribly wrong
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“Explain! Perhaps you’d like to explain it to me, too. I’m not used to having my civil liberties taken away like this. In America, nobody would dream of telling you where you can or can’t go.” And over thirty million Americans died during the Pandemic as a result of that sort of thinking, he thought.
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While they ate, Gilchrist regaled Latimer with his plans for sending Kivrin to the aftermath of the Black Death. “The accepted historical view is that it completely destroyed mediaeval society,” he told Latimer as he cut his roast beef, “but my research indicates it was purgative rather than catastrophic.” From whose point of view? Dunworthy thought, wondering what was taking so long.
Laser candles flickered wanly in the windows and on the altar.
make anything sci-fi by appending the word LASER
A woman in a Burberry stood in front of the Casualties Ward holding a picket sign that said “Ban Foreign Diseases.” A man wearing a regulation face mask opened the door for them and handed Dunworthy a very damp flyer. Dunworthy asked at the admissions desk for Mary and then read the flyer. In boldface type it said “FIGHT INFLUENZA, VOTE TO SECEDE FROM THE EC.” Underneath was a paragraph: “Why will you be separated from your loved ones this Christmas? Why are you forced to stay in Oxford? Why are you in danger of getting ill and dying? Because the EC allows infected foreigners to enter England,
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A small crowd of protesters stood outside in the rain, holding pickets that said, “UNFAIR!” and “Price gouging!” He went inside. They were out of masks, and the temps and the aspirin were outrageously priced. He bought all they had.
She did send lovely flowers. Lilies and laser blossoms.
If you don’t know how to write plausible sci fi just add the word “laser” to random nouns
His hair had gone completely white.
oh so she's stupid-stupid
“Don’t do this to him,” Kivrin shouted, trying to wedge the spoon from Rosemund’s broth between his teeth. “Hasn’t he been through enough?” His body jerked. “Stop it!” Kivrin sobbed. “Stop it!” His body abruptly slackened. She jammed the spoon between his teeth, and a little trickle of black slime came out of the side of his mouth.
kivrin: has "medical" "training"
kivrin: shoves a metal spoon into the mouth of a guy having a seizure
He pushed a button, and Colin darted toward the shields and under, straight into Dunworthy’s arms.
what a fucking idiot. This was the dumbest thing in the entire book probably
