: Covid-19 weeknotes 16

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Friday 10th July, 2020
  1. I moved across from a soup diet to a salad diet just in time for the weather to turn. I can’t really hedge because although I have frozen soup, who wants to freeze salad leaves? Is that even a thing?

  2. Haven’t watched any more dinosaur films yet.

  3. But I have come to the end of the non-fiction book I’m reading, Dr Adam Rutherford’s How to Argue with a Racist, which I enjoyed despite a weird section of the last major chapter that apparently hadn’t had time to be really dug into by the editor and occasionally wasn’t as clear as the rest of the book. However a little lack of clarity is naught when a book has good footnote game. Not quite at the level of Good Omens (which, let’s face it, is a miracle of the footnote genre), but better than Annotated Alice despite Martin Gardner’s impressive attempt in the first chapter of Through the Looking-Glass to write more footnote than text, with 36 footnotes in 24 pages and two consecutive footnotes that between them go on for nearly three pages. A feat that he then immediately mocks by the next footnote being two words: the mantel.

  4. Next up, it’s a race against time to read as many novels as I can before Harrow the Ninth comes out. First up: Children of Virtue and Vengeance.

Stay safe. Wear your mask. Wear your mask properly.