The Silkworm

‘Why do people do this?’
‘Blog, you mean? I don’t know… didn’t someone once say the unexamined life isn’t worth living?’
‘Yeah, Plato,’ said Strike, ‘but this isn’t examining a life, it’s exhibiting it.’

through thick and thin

Twenty-six years of empty evenings, you could have written plenty of books by now, with your first from Oxford… but what would you write about? You haven’t exactly lived a full life, have you?’