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  1. peter rietbergen
    One question though : how old is Chase (and the mysterious stranger)? Given that Pru is six....? Did I miss it?
  2. peter rietbergen
    Extremely well-written and, even more important: very emotionally moving. This week I thought I had exhausted my list of GA favourites. It seems I've got a new one....
  3. peter rietbergen
    Interpreting the two men as they are sketches in this story, I yet wonder if Nate will continue the relationship - not because he cannot allow Diane to have her time with her son but because, to me, the son does not seem weaned from the mother...
  4. peter rietbergen
    Luckily, we know where this is heading... So no worries. Meanwhile, I do enjoy the leisurely road thither...
  5. peter rietbergen
    If Nate is only Cal's chosen instrument to liberate him from/revenge himself on his mother, one might think that there is no real future, here.
  6. peter rietbergen
    Poot Neil, being taken to a Wagners opera - however festive the Demper building is. At least I for one doubt if a real music lover can stand the endless wailing of Wagners heroines and heroes, with or without translation. His instrumental music often is magical, his vocal rambling, especially in The Ring, exhausting. And Gif forbid having to envisage Walhalla set in a lunatic asylum or some such 'modern' director.😓 Let me take Neil to Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder instead. 🙂
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    Chapter 2

    peter rietbergen commented on Ronyx's story chapter in Chapter 2

    Sometimes a perceptive and sympathetic teacher can make all the difference. But they are not a common breed, alas
  8. peter rietbergen
    A cosy tale comfortably concluded. Thanks.
  9. peter rietbergen
    Of course, a story like this needs a release. We, its readers, must shield ourselves against too pessimistic a view of - against, perhaps, our knowledge of the terrible certainty of? - human nature. For deep down we know that the manifold dark moments of human history almost never are blessed with a happy end...
  10. peter rietbergen
    And even now... In my country it only recently transpired that "young people with problems" for who no housing could be found after they had left the care, or non-care of their parents and the regular authorities were, and still are, by those dame authorities, "outplaced" in establishments often run for private profit....one hates to think what happens to them, there.
  11. peter rietbergen
    A chapter both dreadful, gruesome and, though I hate to admit it, exciting. One remark: fascism does not, I think, equal nazism and extermination camps and genocide. Italy, or rather Mussolini c.a., the original fascists, had no genocidal program and only decided to follow the worst excesses of Germany's leaders rather late in their day.
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    Chapter 1

    peter rietbergen commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 1

    It is both predictable and deeply moving. In short: one of your (shortest) bests. Thank you.
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    Chapter 2

    peter rietbergen commented on KC Stone's story chapter in Chapter 2

    If Ph. was aware of his lab partner's beyond-academic interest, the author should give us an inkling....
  14. peter rietbergen
    From Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" to Auschwitz. But this tale only works if we believe Elias survived the shocks...
  15. peter rietbergen
    In a light way this exposes a lot of problematic spots ..
  16. peter rietbergen
    Cruelty, alas, has no end till a rebellion, a revolution ends it. But, also alas, few revolutions succeed without the shedding of blood of more people than the perpetrators of the original cruelty....
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    Settling in

    peter rietbergen commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in Settling in

    Well, we'll miss the two men and their various siblings, in-laws and other such. Getting to know them was great fun.
  18. peter rietbergen
    The question is, as in all comparable situations, whether (a group of) good-willing individuals can succeed in destroying an evil system.
  19. peter rietbergen
    The plot chickens....
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    Chapter 1

    peter rietbergen commented on KC Stone's story chapter in Chapter 1

    When he described his crush he called him Philip. But he didn't know his name yet....
  21. peter rietbergen
    A turning point. What turn the take, the boys's fate will take is.... Well: we wait!
  22. peter rietbergen
    This, of course, resembles what happened in the Nazi camps, in the Soviet gulags, in the 're-education' establishments of the Pathet Lao. Takes of unimiginable terror and heroic resistance.
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    Chapter 2

    peter rietbergen commented on Mark Paren's story chapter in Chapter 2

    Maybe I am stupid. But it was Winston who made the joke about boys and dildo's, and punched James. So why is W so upset? Unless he has realised that he has feelings for J ?
  24. peter rietbergen
    Perhaps it would be too unrealistic to expect that the escape that seems promised in the prologue would leave all 'prisoners' unscathed.
  25. peter rietbergen
    A very good chapter.
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