The cultural conditions to revive this moment were there in 1996 but history had other plans.

Glad to know that checking the app would have in no way improved my similar experience.

There are wonderful people in local government.

In reading both *Banal Nightmare* and *Jillian*, I was badly tempted to put each down, because the opening chapters are rough on the reader. But the claustrophobic feel of the early stuff makes the late-chapter brightness feel like a joyous revelation.

Writing is stunning too.

“whatever rate limits may be in place appear to, at times, get completely ignored, and there doesn’t seem to be anything they can do to stop it.”