[…] and through to TV news reports and talk-shows recounting phantasmic atrocities committed by “ukro-fascists”, from cannibalism to child crucifixion to the “genocide” of Russians in East Ukraine.⁵

Nonsense, child, said my father, smiling. Did you ever see a stone thrown into the pond? there's a great splash, and a few circles on the water, and that's about all, isn't it? Well, when I die there'll be a great splash of tears and hullaballooing, and a few circles of tender recollections, and then the surface will smooth itself over, and it'll be all right again.

The horses carried the packs across the plain.

Would ser care to dine this evening?