(1720) Evening all.

19. Andy and dandelion syrup

18. That topic again … sorr…ee

17. What can one say?

16. Need to address book writing

AKH has a piece on books … hmmmm, been thinking for a long time … have actually mentioned a couple of times … there’s something which stops people reading books by authors in another field, e.g. blogs. It doesn’t necessarily follow that if he can write good non-fiction, that he can write fiction without it being twee.

There are his perceptions and interests, his manner too … good for the blog … but in a book, all those secret things he’s wanted to write come out. A synopsis certainly helps up front, rather than expecting a reader just to plunge in. There’s his writing style, if he plays fair, all sorts we’d like to know first.

I went off Wimsey once I knew Dorothy L. Sayers’ bkgd … Wimsey was emasculated for a reason … he was a feminist’s idea of a man. My women in my tales had to pass a test and a very unforgiving test I was sure was going to be Toodles, who very kindly read the various pieces. I’m currently re-proofing Island … zero expectation of anyone to read, as you don’t know how good I am or not.

To my mind, now up to chapter twelve, it’s a rollicking yarn, I’d done my homework back then it seems, not sure I could write like that now, I’m thinking it’s my best yarn of em all, not that that’s here nor there … but I don’t like the latter stages … it gets bleak as society goes down … it parallels real life at that point, dystopically. It needs a nice denouement at the end … they find a way to survive.

Anyway, to reiterate, as it’s not changed, that tale … no point reading it yet … but I do come back to that point again that we don’t wish to waste our time on unknown amateurs … we need the author to be a known-known, to know his/her style, tricks, manner … think I’d always read a Josephine Tey … Scottish authoresses seem less … something … can’t pin it down but it’s nice.

Anyway, nuff of all that, Andy just dropped a comment, I need dinner, want to get back to the proofing.

15. Steve and war room at 1049

• Jack Posobiec: “What We Care About Is Liberating The Central Animating Force Of Every Country.”
• Josh Hammer: “Trump Is Facing A Judicial Insurrection Of The Likes Of No President In American History.” *
• Mike Davis: The Supreme Court Issued An Illegal Injunction Against The President Of The United States
• “Hopefully The Dead People Will Not Rise” George Simion On Romanian Deep State Working Against Prospective Landslide Victory For Populists
• “Imagine If He Was Met With Meaningful Congressional Oversight Over Criminal Charges” Natalie Winters On James Comey Assassination Threat
• “They’re There So The Chinese Can Remotely Kill These Solar Farms” Sam Faddis On CCP Communication Tech Found In US Solar Inverters

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JH: Only thing I’d add is that Trump’s gatekeeper Wiles worries me … he’s bad at choosing gatekeepers, trusts a certain manner they adopt, a sort of tough efficiency. Plus he’s naturally cavalier. Think he trusts Hegseth. Elon, natch, has his own agenda … trouble at Tesla. RFK Jnr? Own agenda too … nothing bad, just how it is. I don’t trust Wiles.