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Rereading Brat Farrar I'm reminded of a few things -- not least that Thomas is, more or less, Simon, and what that means for him and for me ... but mostly I'm reminded (again) of Farthing and that sweet assertion Walton makes that she was trying to work out when the book could possibly have happened. (She's right, by the way; it's a bit baffling. The dentist was bombed at some point during Brat's career abroad, but it would've been surely nearly impossible to get into America during the war or immediately before, and I don't think there's enough time after?)

( some thoughts on tey the englishwoman and the possible lesbian? )

I'm a big Scrooge this year about the holidays, which is distressing because I've never been before, and while I wish you all a very merry Christmas I personally will probably be spending Christmas in a bunker to get away from the seventeen repetitions of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" in Starbucks, which was, I am not kidding, the least festive place in downtown San Francisco. PS when you say "happy holidays" and you decorate the building in red and green and have eggnog lattes and peppermint mochas and the Christmas blend, you're not fooling anyone.