Until now I had been too cowardly to read any of her Sad books, after being frightened by my mother’s reaction to Doomsday Book. Connie Willis is a very great writer, whose books come in two varieties (mostly): Funny and Sad. Last night (or very early this morning) I finished All Clear, the second volume in the two part novel Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis. But I have had the most unsatisfactory night, and I was not able to find rest until I thought this thing through and out the other end, and so I feel I owe it to myself to write down the solution I came up with. I should by rights be doing something worthwhile, not writing a journal which shall doubtless never be posted (unless I decide otherwise later). THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS EXPLICIT, DETAILED SPOILERS FOR THE END OF BLACKOUT/ALL CLEAR, AND SOME VAGUE SPOILERS FOR ANATHEM. READERS WHO HAVE NOT READ THESE TITLES AND CARE DEEPLY ABOUT HAVING KEY PLOT POINTS REVEALED TO THEM SHOULD GO AND READ BLACKOUT/ALL CLEAR FIRST, AND THEN POSSIBLY ANATHEM, (not so much because I spoil anything, but because it is a damn good book and everybody should read it eventually) AND THEN COME BACK AND READ THIS JOURNAL.
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