2020/033: The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times -- Xan Brooks

2020/033: The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times -- Xan Brooks

“I’m sorry. There is no excuse for what I did. It’s too easy to say that we came back as beasts. We were beasts to begin with and then the war brought it out.” [loc. 3724]

Set in 1923, in a world still shadowed by the aftermath of the First World War.( mild spoilers )

it just got personal

last year I was part of Blackheath Halls Opera chorus, singing in La Belle Helene There was one tricky scene with a small group of us all dressed in pink.

today I found out that my partner in that scene, the woman who at each performance zipped up my pink dress in our 2-minute costume change, has died of coronavirus.

(We weren't really friends, just acquaintances. But she's the first victim that I know of who was personally known to me, and it's shaken me more than expected.)