It Clicks

In Cheshire I mention that Mankell's Talisman has a brazen devil may care quality, but by episode 7, one's eyes start to glaze over, and the ending was dismal, anti-climatic. The actor who took the lead as the discredited cop, however, appears in the earlier Hamilton series, which contributes to subversive irony if fans follow European actors with the same regularity as those who break ranks in Burbank.

And, if I have been writing as if I did not know Henning was an obituary over the course of this year, the dowager displays a rare dose of humility and apologizes. As rendered through Calamur, the fanciful obit compiler, I disagree with both the contributor and Henning's voice within the piece. Having read a couple of the Wallander novels, they do not seem to reflect ordinary mundane affairs, not in terms of Mankell's plots, Mankell's withholding, though one concedes Wallander is the normal middle class white male being asked to clean up modern psychoses. Nor is racism a crime. The actual offense is egalitarianism which muzzles people like dogs, though it is also true a disproportionate number of writers die from lung cancer, alcoholism, or even too much caffeine. Depends on who we are, how far we push.