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Any novel is a ‘doomsday book’, an iteration of its own simulated relationship between fate and free will.
She is interested, rather, with the relationship between the past and the present. That the present (or her near future) of Doomsday Book feels thinner than the richly evoked past is a feature of the novel, not a bug; because of course the past informs life more forcefully than the present.
not sure that I agree with this statement
Pedantry is not the best frame of mind in which to enjoy a novel like Doomsday Book; because, like Shakespeare, she captures the mood of a time, the feel of medieval England, and she does so with remarkable vividness.
sounds like getting the excuses in early here
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.
This was impossible. Tube passengers and partygoers, and everyone he’d had contact with in London. They would never be able to trace and test all of them, even if Badri knew who they were.
The medical staff are always the first exposed. If they come down with it, or the supply of antimicrobials gives out, this century could be the one that’s a ten.’
Doubtless when the fact that the virus had originated in South Carolina was revealed, the Confederacy, or Southern fried chicken, would be blamed.
Eliwys stood up and stepped forward to the men on horseback, her aim out in a gesture of welcome. Kivrin
Thinnk it should read as arm and not AIM
And that was when they could begin giving immunisations. How long would it take to immunise the quarantine area? A week? Two? Before Gilchrist and the idiot protesters considered it safe to open the laboratory?
There may have been New Hindus there, or Earthers, or someone else who doesn’t believe in antivirals or modern medicine.
‘That’s how the plague was spread during the Black Death,’ Colin said, taking the gobstopper out and examining it. It was a sickly yellow. ‘They kept trying to run away from it, but they just took it along with them.’
She infected the largish syringe into the cannula, smiled at him and went out.
Should read inJected not infected
He was so cold. That was the fever, of course, the throbbing, the dizziness, they were all the fever, and a fever was a good sign, the body marshalling its forces to fight off the virus, assembling the troops. The chill was only a side effect of the fever.
Dunworthy shook his head. ‘Every man must stick to his bell,’ he said breathlessly and yanked down on the rope.
analogy for doing your duty in a different role
