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[BrowneIssue]

did you leave them 'til last?

Damn.

I forgot.

You've explained all this to me before, I think.

Or to someone else while I was lurking.

I'll have to get another curry in now so I can try it.

[DS23]

i'd have been 12 or 13 or 14 i suppose.... it was my first proper adult book.

[BrowneIssue]

The problem is, however, we could hardly move when we'd eaten what we had and we both had stufff still on our plates.

We'd have not been able to face the poppadoms.

[BrowneIssue]

i mean it's not often you get offered free false hope is it?

I dunno. I seem to be offered it frequently. I just choose to decline.

[DS23]

<slaps head> ouch!

now, <sternly> how good do you think a poppadom would taste right now?

[BrowneIssue]

I suppose all these people that pre-order things (as opposed to the old fashioned 'ordering' things) are buying false hope.

[BrowneIssue]

Like pre-ordering a Wee-Station 2000 for delivery for Christmas when they're not even in the shops in Japan.

Or pre-ordering concert tickets for a Michal Jackson concert.

[DS23]

i recall reading it and having an epiphany. not an obvious reaction to desmond bagley i'll grant you..

[BrowneIssue]

why won'y my keys work?

Wrong lock. Wrong house. Her husband has changed the locks. She has moved. You are in the wrong time dimension.

[DS23]

but once i'd read it suddenly there was a whole new world of fiction to explore and that new world included a certain james jones and the thin red line.