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Facebook suddenly showed this on my feed, saying they thought I would enjoy it. Which I certainly did.

Good thing there are so many book-related things on my facebook page. They are usually good for a couple of smiles a day, but this little gem I wanted to share.

*in a world where everything moves some things still have to be hand-copied to LJ*

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minervas_eule

How nice! I can see it before my inner eye illustrated as a Manga :-).

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therealsnape

So can I! And Disney would have made nice work of some of the furniture - remember Beauty and the Beast? Especially if they would get Ian McKellan for voices.

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smallhobbit

Sounds about right!

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therealsnape

I really enjoyed it!

It must be noted that the computers, who make our lives hell by not working / slow working / working against our request, are mightily quiet here. What happened to computer says 'no'?

Edited Date: 2022-07-11 06:40 am (UTC)

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dreamy_dragon73

Sounds like the decent thing to do :)

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therealsnape

Glad to see the printer do the decent thing.

It must be noted that the computers, who make our lives hell by not working / slow working / working against our request, are mightily quiet here. What happened to computer says 'no'?

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kelly_chambliss

Very nice indeed; this poet is an effective wordsmith. I hope the notorious booze suitcase trundled itself out the door, too.

As for the crumbling of the edifice, I hope so, if that edifice is the sort of post-truth, post-fact, post-accountability political world that Johnson (and Trump and countless others) have helped institute. Johnsonism and Trumpism need to die. . .and soon, if our world is to have a chance.

I'd like to think that it was indeed a sense of "enough is enough" that led to the Tories ousting Boris (at least in theory; he ain't gone yet). I'd like to think that they have enough regard for true government (as opposed to politics) and for the stability of their country that they were finally willing to draw a line and say, "this behavior is dangerous and unacceptable."

I fear, though, that if Johnson were still popular with voters, his ministers would still be doing what they've done since he was elected: lie for him, justify him, excuse him, gaslight the entire country by insisting, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that Boris has done nothing wrong.

As long as he brought in Tory support, there was pretty much nothing Johnson could do or say that was truly unacceptable to his party. But once they started losing elections. . .well, it was those losses and the threats to their own careers -- not the lawbreaking and the lies and the tolerance of sexual harassment -- that finally led to all those ministers suddenly rediscovering their pious dedication to honor and country. They're like Captain Renault in Casablanca -- shocked, shocked to find that there is ~~gambling~~ mendacity in Downing Street.

If these ministers were truly politicians of integrity, they would never have elected Johnson in the first place; they knew exactly what he was. I have to agree with Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, who wrote,

"Clearly the Conservative party has most to answer for, choosing this man as its leader in 2019 when everything you needed to know about Johnson was already known. They say that character is destiny. The habitual lying and deceiving that proved his undoing, and ours, were never hidden: their outcome was foretold from the start. Dishonesty is the nature of the man, and the Tories who made him our nation’s leader knew it."

But still, at least gone is gone (sort of), and we can hope that the replacement won't be worse than the replaced. We'll have to wait and see: if the radiators agree to come back, we'll probably be all right.