skygiants

Hah - on a shallow note, one of the weirdest things about the book was how Sarkozy actually does not come off most terribly! I mean, he doesn't come off amazing in any way, either, but . . . better than a lot of others!

What's astounding to me, really - well, astounding and depressingly plausible at the same time, because goodness knows human beings like to believe certain things - was the concept that controlling this very superficial outward manifestation of the issue was going to fix everything that it sprang from. Once again, it kind of comes back to the fact that the debate and the law had so little to do with the women that were theoretically at the center of it.