Like an unwound clock

[sovay]

I had not planned to spend my evening on an unsuccessful quest for the preferred brand of cat sand in this house (I have obtained a substitute which the cats have keyn-ahora deigned to accept), but at least it put me in the same parking lot as Porter Square Books, which I used as an excuse to ask if they had a copy of Sarwat Chadda's City of the Plague God (2021), which I have wanted to read since its inauspicious release date and never got around to getting hold of. As a slight partisan of underworld gods, I expect I will argue with it to an equivalent degree, but I like the way it has a cuneiform line of Gilgamesh running along the bottom of every page. I do not like the vanishing act this month pulled, but a cat is asleep in my lap.

Comments

[radiantfracture]

Blessed are the cats

the same parking lot as Porter Square Books

A beautiful serendipity! I haven't heard of the store but a brief Google makes me immediately partisan (to borrow your word).

a copy of Sarwat Chadda's City of the Plague God (2021)

Well now I must also read this, which it turns out I can get for free with my temporary Kindle Unlimited free trial subscription.

[nineweaving]

I like the way it has a cuneiform line of Gilgamesh running along the bottom of every page.

Sold! I hope the argument will be enjoyable.

...a cat is asleep in my lap

As it should be.

Nine

[davidgillon]

The cat sands of time flow slowly.