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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2016-12-26 09:23 pm

The uses of technology

Yes, Foxglove Summer did come out over two years ago, meaning before I had a cell phone for continuous reference. With non-fic reading I use it to google things like which Giuliano was Il Magnifico's son and which his grandson or was it nephew? and what's the pinyin for T'ao Ch'ien. Now I get to sort out the dizzying array of acronyms in Peter's vocabulary: IC1, NSA, NCA, MIT, SCO19, DVLA, IED, PACE, IIP, PMC, and on and on. Doubtless adds versimilitude to a wild and unconvincing narrative, but sheesh...

Also read very carefully and made notes on names because, sheesh again, upper-class English names are infinitely confusible.

Am waiting to see if that smoking gun from Broken Homes is ever explained. Or am I supposed to figure it out myself because Aaronovitch thinks it's obvious?
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[personal profile] incandescens 2016-12-27 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
Which smoking gun, may I ask?

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2016-12-27 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
C being a cleaner in Broken Homes. What was she doing in that place at that time in disguise?
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[personal profile] incandescens 2016-12-27 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. I clearly need to reread that.