In the end I marveled: how did she present such bleak fatalism with so much verve and energy? I mean here the bleak fatalism aimed not at the old gods of Asgaard, but at us, those who are currently living on this planet, who most certainly are not gods of any kind.
Byatt's really good. But we know that.
Something else she stirred up, a lately musing, that no matter what it is, when it comes to Britain, at some point every writer and particularly any long running television series, has to come back to both WWI and WWII, even when set in the current era.
Does France do this? Does Germany? Russia? Japan? I know the U.S. doesn't.
What a double-whammy trauma the two world wars were for England.
I'm not sure that even the Civil War is like that for us. Of course that was longer ago than the two WWs. Though, perhaps, that's because we have still been fighting that war all this time, just by other names.
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