A simple lifestyle is so often simple because other people are taking care of all the complicated things like food production! Are we maybe supposed to *notice* that Hemingway is not noticing that they're all doing Marie Antoinette stuff? Maybe not. And I suppose the real Murphys actually hung out with all these famous people but it seems to me that a grieving ten year old could have a normal summer in France and that would be plenty without all the celebrities who IRL were probably too busy drinking to give lessons to ten year olds, but evidently I am also fun police.
I wonder if journalists automatically fall back on 'we never thought it could happen here' cliches even when everybody knew it could, just because...humans and shock and how humans deal with shock. I'm so sorry you all had to go through that.
Our plan this year is to watch the Halloween episodes of MacGyver in between doorbell rings. Hope yours is good!
Glad to hear the horror is confined mainly to movies for you right now.
Alice Atherton's Grand Tour looks like a darling book, the sort of book which needs full-color illustrations so you can see all the European stuff historically (have you yet read Dan Santat's book - all those lovely sketches!) but the conceit is a lot like Forrest Gump for me... though, at least nothing "historical" seems to happen while Alice is around. .. although Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald top my list of Toxic, Narcissistic People I Wouldn't Allow Around My Kids. Yikes.
A simple lifestyle is so often simple because other people are taking care of all the complicated things like food production! Are we maybe supposed to *notice* that Hemingway is not noticing that they're all doing Marie Antoinette stuff? Maybe not. And I suppose the real Murphys actually hung out with all these famous people but it seems to me that a grieving ten year old could have a normal summer in France and that would be plenty without all the celebrities who IRL were probably too busy drinking to give lessons to ten year olds, but evidently I am also fun police.
I wonder if journalists automatically fall back on 'we never thought it could happen here' cliches even when everybody knew it could, just because...humans and shock and how humans deal with shock. I'm so sorry you all had to go through that.
Our plan this year is to watch the Halloween episodes of MacGyver in between doorbell rings. Hope yours is good!
Glad to hear the horror is confined mainly to movies for you right now.
Alice Atherton's Grand Tour looks like a darling book, the sort of book which needs full-color illustrations so you can see all the European stuff historically (have you yet read Dan Santat's book - all those lovely sketches!) but the conceit is a lot like Forrest Gump for me... though, at least nothing "historical" seems to happen while Alice is around. .. although Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald top my list of Toxic, Narcissistic People I Wouldn't Allow Around My Kids. Yikes.