I don’t see how people read this book as an “allegory about fascism.” It is literally about life under fascism. Everybody is talking about Hitler. Main characters can’t speak. Leftists and liberals are beaten up and jailed and killed in the streets.

“By Calvinism, I mean my mom. By Lutheranism, I mean my dad.” www.routledge.com/The-Iron-Cag...

And that’s how you do genocides

“Kettle logic” to be sure, but I think most responses would align with Mike Johnsonesque “I haven’t seen that and I don’t know” protestations of ignorance.

Are these ALL your relatives?

I had to look up the other two. “Freedom… to party? That can’t be it…”

(Plan B: use all the data centers to store billions of high res copies of S1E1 of”Ally McBeal”)

Beautiful. (And now I will feel very strange about posting with the Norman Rockwell Freedom of Speech guy meme)

They could prolong the will they or won’t they for five seasons

Cristóbal Colon: Una Novela

The True, True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother): a true, true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)

Lost Illusions: the theatrical motion picture event
Pride and Prejudice: the scoping review
Moby Dick: quarterly earnings report
Hard Times: a coupon flyer you get in the mail

I can’t seem to find a common thread. It’s not like someone is going to pick up _The Shipping News_ and say “oh golly I didn’t mean to read a _novel_, I wanted to read some news about shipping.”