By far the strangest thing to come out of it all, though, was the announcement of a Mysteries of the World theme park, due to open in Switzerland next year. Feebly smallish-scale replicas of Aztec temples, Nazca lines and things, by the looks of it. Very mysterious indeed.

(Although I had no idea that the British Museum had moai...)

As Above as Above at
eat to the simplistic,
slightly puzzled narrative
giving
a metaphor it took five years,
the rest
of his plan to be
set up elsewhere
and
thus is readable, for a
history of life.

I'm better now, anyway. I think.

The other was Rupert Thomson's Soft, a tale of fizzy-drink advertising taken too far, of a particularly dangerously piece of memetic marketing. Told from the perspectives of three very different protagonists, their hefty chunks of narrative overlap and converge towards some very unsettling plot turns. Besides the superb plot, the book's quite thoroughly readable for its style alone - although Thomson goes rather over the top with descriptive similes, at times, they're all quite beautiful, giving a very real and varying London backdrop to the majority of the book's events. Must read his other stuff.