Would ser care to dine this evening?

The horses carried the packs across the plain.

[…] 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.