Paul’s bedtime reading
Iran’s team has withdrawn from the World Cup. The newspapers are taking it in stride.
Surely, I’m not the only dismayed soccer follower in the West.
The death toll has risen, too. And it’s beyond doubt that the U.S. killed those schoolchildren.
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I’ve made a new and definite reading list for the next two months. I’ll try to finish not five, not ten, but twenty-four more books before the late-April conclusion of my 2025–2026 cycle. And so it’s particularly cruel of the Web bots to pepper me with ads for the new John Galsworthy PBS show. I just can’t fit all nine of those novels into the schedule. If only Abel didn’t cling to me all day long.
The good news is, the Forsyte show looks missable.
Surely, I’m not the only dismayed soccer follower in the West.
The death toll has risen, too. And it’s beyond doubt that the U.S. killed those schoolchildren.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
I’ve made a new and definite reading list for the next two months. I’ll try to finish not five, not ten, but twenty-four more books before the late-April conclusion of my 2025–2026 cycle. And so it’s particularly cruel of the Web bots to pepper me with ads for the new John Galsworthy PBS show. I just can’t fit all nine of those novels into the schedule. If only Abel didn’t cling to me all day long.
Little suspecting the incalculable consequences that the evening was to have for him, he bicycled happily back from a meeting of the League of Nations Union. There had been a most interesting paper about plebiscites in Poland. He thought of smoking a pipe and reading another chapter of the Forsyte Saga before going to bed. He knocked at the gate, was admitted, put away his bicycle, and diffidently, as always, made his way across the quad towards his rooms. What a lot of people there seemed to be about! Paul had no particular objection to drunkenness – he had read a rather daring paper to the Thomas More Society on the subject – but he was consumedly shy of drunkards.Frankly, Paul Pennyfeather’s life sounds heavenly (except for that ominous bit about little suspecting incalculable consequences).
The good news is, the Forsyte show looks missable.