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Why “Saturday” Sucks: A Deconstruction
Why does this exist? Because Saturday is, objectively, a pile of crap, a heaping mound of neoliberal white supremacist propaganda penned by a neoliberal white supremacist author. You mean that nice...
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Saturday: How the Other Half Lives (p. 1-11)
The good doctor Henry Perowne, our hero, wakes up unseasonably early, walks over to the window, and takes in his surroundings. That particular façade is a reconstruction, a pastiche—wartime Fitzrovia...
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Saturday: Burning Planes and Leprechauns (p. 11-18)
The data recovery fairies, bless ‘em, are hard at work restoring the AU/JP travelogues. In the meantime, here’s another Saturday entry! This wouldn’t be a post-9/11 novel without a post-9/11 leitmotif....
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Saturday: You Can, Apparently, Get Away With Self-Insertion If You Won the...
Still no AU/JP travelougues, alas, but that’s because I’m writing this on the seventh and scheduling it for the thirteenth. As one does. Anyway, it’s pretentious epigraph time! Perowne dictated...
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Saturday: I Got the Rich White Boy Blues (p. 25-37)
Twenty-five pages in and the sun hasn’t risen yet. Just FYI. Anyway. It is here we are introduced to Henry’s son, up-and-coming blues musician Theo Perowne, described thusly: …eighteen years old, his...
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Saturday: Wish I Was Old and a Little Sentimental (p. 37-53)
Three guesses where the title came from, and the first two don’t count. Perowne heads upstairs. On his way to the main stairs, he pauses by the double front doors. They give straight on to the...
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I dug up this Lenin’s Tomb quote from 2006 that presents a different angle to this Saddam-as-child thing. Violence belongs, so much is apparent, to the White Man. Violence in ‘our’ hands is rational,...
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Saturday: In the Beginning McEwan Created the Heavens and the Earth (p. 53-57)
This one’s gonna be short, ‘cos it’s a short section. A fifth of the way in, and the big protest today was only mentioned…once. One could be forgiven for not remembering there’s a protest on at all. It...
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Saturday: The Suck Begins (p. 57-64)
This is, as we will soon discover, the section with the Iraqi torture victim. But first, a word about description. As a teenager, I spent far too much time on (the late, lamented) Anti-shur’tugal, a...
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Saturday: It Takes One to Know One (p. 64-70)
I. Henry Perowne Doesn’t Get Literature It’s pretty obvious that the good doctor’s thoughts on literature are not entirely McEwan’s, otherwise our humble author would be puttering away in...
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