Conflux #6

[chrisbarnes]

Things discovered at Conflux this year:

1. Good stories usually start with a dead body. While idly discussing good books (and some not so good), Cat, Paul and I pulled out examples and found, I think, three of the four good examples started with a body. Example, from Donna Tartt's The Secret History: "The snow in the mountains was melting and

Comments

[paulhaines]

how long did it take to drive home?

[chrisbarnes]

About four hours, I think. An hour longer than usual. The traffic slowed to a crawl about an hour out of Canberra, where the hailstorm had hit... there were small drifts of it like snow at the roadside. Fortunately it was only small hail and I missed most of it.