You could probably chart King’s output against the availability of cocaine in the local area

Chomsky never quite properly manages to explain what would happen if America didn’t exist though does he.

I suppose we’re supposed to intuit that Russia and China wouldn’t just swallow up every neighboring country.

Not to mention when America does take a backseat and doesn’t get involves, shit like the Holocaust happens, but we’ll forget that for now, and ask ourselves like one of those classic rock bands, “yeah sure, but what have they done recently, their new albums suck!”

Who would have thought that stuffing your story full of characters and narratives taking place over a land mass the size of Europe would be hard to end in a feasible way.

A lot easier to start than to finish, obviously.

The seemingly innocuous detail in all detective books that turns out to be the linchpin of the whole mystery.

Same with a lot of Dickens stuff, something at the start a small detail, turns out to be the “thing”.