“Deportment and propriety in High Society 101” at Lady Favisham’s, a mandatory course for young ladies.
(AKA “How to break a man’s wrist without letting go of your fan”)
“Men,” began Mistress Carlysle. She said the word as though it were
an epithet. “They own the world. They run the world. The spend their
lives believing that whatever they see… they own. They believe they
have the right to help themselves. And it is up to us… It
Why isn’t this on the news everywhere right now? Talking about it would bring up the long history of white racism expressed through the burning of Black churches (sometimes with people inside) and the mass media’s job is to protect, project and perpetuate the illusion of white innocence. Here the victims are Black and most likely in all these cases the arsonists are white racist. The media will do anything to avoid that conversation. However that purse snatching
“Like many other things, if you know what you’re doing, an open fire isn’t particularly dangerous.” Says the person wearing no safety gear, having lit a campfire with flint and steel and currently rearranging the burning sticks barehanded.
“You’re… burning raw cellulose,” said the alien, through its translator. “There is no safety equipment.”
“Got a shovel,” soothed Tanja. “Got loads of sand. We’re good.”
“You are not knowing if this cellulose is loaded with toxins.”