A prominent novelist ponders the electricity problem that most citizens of this country are very familiar with I am in the “fourth” restriction group. I am writing this next to my turned-off computer, by the light from a four-tiered candelabra (what would the on duty witches say about the symbolism of this number?) with the “configuration” of good old “Olympia”. […]

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