WRITERS: Zadie Smith

Listening to this on the radio at the moment, after getting some morning and afternoon chores done here:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/zadie-smith-s-latest-book-intimations-reflects-deeply-on-isolation-and-injustice-1.5729946

"Racial contempt" as a concept...I accept that it's real. "Fear of poverty"? Also real. Also fear of poverty as a contagion...as a related concept. I am certain that I have been taught those latter two concepts, whether my teachers realized what they were doing as such or not. I hope I wasn't successfully taught racial contempt. I plan to assume the attempt was made to bake it into my education.

RADIO/POLITICS: Elections During Pandemic

Since New Brunswick managed to hold one...listening to this as I read and type between now and suppertime:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/is-it-time-to-call-an-election-1.5728483

Nightmares

Been having them this past week.

One where my neighbourhood learns what it was like in Baghdad, Iraq the hardest way. Aerial bombardments, flames, that sort of thing.

Another where all my library collections are whisked forever out of my reach by someone I've trusted. (Not anyone in my friendlist, rest assured there.)

Feels like I'm on an edge of some sort.