Justice...

Interesting Christopher Hitchens essay.

Made me think, for some reason, of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale.

If only there was more justice for the young and female, who are so often powerless.

To eat or not to eat...

My chiropractor phoned me today, just to see how I felt the day after my first treatment. Is this doctor too good to be true, or what?

I'm working on diet strategy. Typical of me, my diet strategies tend to be laced with useful medieval fantasy scenarios.

Well. Whatever works.

Questions for authors...

If you could ask your favorite author (alive or dead) one question … who would you ask, and what would the question be?

I did have a chance to ask my favourite author questions. The author was Dorothy Dunnett, back when she was alive. Her answers tended to follow a certain pattern. I remember asking her, for instance, shortly after the publication of The Spring of the Ram, "What colour are Nicholas's eyes?"

"Wait and see," she said.

She wasn't exactly forthcoming.

I suppose I would like to ask Charles Dickens who killed Edwin Drood.