In honor of the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road...

[pat]

wordweaverlynn reminds me that it is the 25th of May. [edit: link fixed.]

For those of you who have not read Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, I would strongly encourage you to do so. Not only the best of the Sam Vimes novels, indeed the best of the Discworld novels, it contains a lot of food for thought on history, and freedom, and politics. It's wonderful.

Rereading the parts about the Cable Street Particulars, for example, I keep thinking about Abu Ghraib and extraordinary rendition. The book was published in 2002, a year before the first torture horror stories came out.

"When we break down, it all breaks down. That's just how it works. You can bend it, and if you make it hot enough, you can bend it in a circle, but you can't break it. When you break it, it all breaks down until there's nothing unbroken. It starts here and now."

Comments

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Hmm... might could be you want to look at that link. ;^)

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Try http://wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com/287865.html

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- and thanks for bringing the date up. I pulled the book out *again* : )