Ahaha I love the Funeral Games pain scale. Games at least had historical interest, let's put it that way.
Looking Glass isn't just insistently nihilistic and verging on squalid, the pacing is also pretty draggy and from what I remember far too much time is spent on an awful marriage a la mode (perhaps foreshadowing the truly dreadful Naïve and Sentimental Lover). It's not just unpleasant, there's a sense of the author determinedly rubbing his audience's nose into the mess.
Supposedly it's based on the historical rivalry between the SOE and the SIS. I think.
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Date: 2024-10-26 07:55 pm (UTC)Looking Glass isn't just insistently nihilistic and verging on squalid, the pacing is also pretty draggy and from what I remember far too much time is spent on an awful marriage a la mode (perhaps foreshadowing the truly dreadful Naïve and Sentimental Lover). It's not just unpleasant, there's a sense of the author determinedly rubbing his audience's nose into the mess.
Supposedly it's based on the historical rivalry between the SOE and the SIS. I think.