Did you know that when the Romans initially built the Coliseum, they found out half-way through the project that most of the "rocks" that their slaves had carried to the site were nothing more than ultra-light adobe style bricks that they had learned to make on the sly, as a way to avoid dying by the thousands dragging around huge chunks of solid marble?
Well, if you DO know that, you should probably hurry to a PhD program in anthropology, write it up, and get it published, because it didn't happen, at least as far as we know to this point. But if it HAD happened, it would have been a very powerful story in support of second chances, generally, and specifically ones related to the book club on here!
Whether it was a lack of excitement over Metamorphosis, or everyone's busy lives, or the fact that the commentzorz button used to ask you for SS# and mother's maiden name in order to post a comment, that's all water under the bridge. For now we have an exciting new book, written by an actual alive person! In this century, no less! And with the anonymous comments feature turned on, you can now snipe away at everyone else who has the temerity to challenge your opinions with the level of haughty condescension that only the Internets can provide!
So order up that book, start reading, and let's all get together and chat about it on May 1, or "May Day" as they call it in all those pagan godless countries like France, or Canada.
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I guess I'd better read the book, then! It's been sitting here for about a month but has not yet Osmosified itself into my brain.
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