Status Updates From Waterland

Ghosts--fuck yeah! Well played, Swift, well played indeed...

Is it starting to pick up now? I think it might be--in fits and starts at least. I classify the books that I read in two categories: books I can read laying down in bed, and books that I cannot read while laying down in bed. This book is one of the latter.

Not interested so far...it's putting me to sleep, really. Gotta power through.

In July 1940 Hitler contemplates - as in 1805 Napoleon had contemplated - the invasion of England. Only to put it off and go marching off to Russia. Just as Napoleon did.
Now who says history doesn't go in circles?

Your position - am I right? - is that histoty is a red herring; only the present matters.

Am loving this - the story is as unstable as the waterlogged summer pastures.