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What remains? Every corner a new name
Today was unusually awful and exhausting and did not start to improve until the evening, but I want to note that I lost my wallet and keys in a downpour outside of Mass General Hospital and didn't find out until after my appointment was over and I was trying to put a piece of paper away in my suddenly nonexistent wallet and while they were soaked to the point that a check I am still hoping to deposit had almost dissolved, they had not only not been scooped off the street and stolen, they were sitting rather damply but plainly at the information desk of the Wang Building and I appreciate this enormously. Thank you, unknown person who did not make my day much, much worse! Also I have watched all ten hours of AMC's The Terror (2018) and loved everything about the show from acting to cinematography to Jared Harris' weird round wry haggard cat-face. Also Dakzen is an honest-to-God cheap eats in an escalatingly un-cheap town and I can add the ba mee moo dang to the list of dishes I recommend. Also the Tipping Cow now makes coconut-milk ice cream. Also our cats are nice.
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Thank you! It was a good day for kind strangers.
I really enjoyed the book, and have been meaning to get around to watching the show. The book, at least, was surprisingly faithful to the facts (as known in 2007, when it was written, at least), despite the horror-mythology additions.
I enjoyed the book, but I liked its premise better than its execution, so for me the show had the quality of top-drawer fix-it as well as sterling adaptation. Plus it takes into account the new information that has come to light about the Franklin expedition since Simmons wrote his novel, which really pays off in some specific plot and character beats. I would like to write about it. Just after a month of not writing about and hardly watching any film, the thought of generating words with intellectual content feels like a delusion.