The Regime
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Whatever this place was for you, its over now.
What accounts for her loyalty to Elena?
How has she put up with the chancellor acting as a mother to her own child?
Thats not the case here at all.
Sensing the inevitable, most of the ministers are eyeing the exit door.
They take my love for granted, she says.
They push me away.
Theyll find their way back to me, just as Herbert did.
But by then, the building has already been breached.
Theres seemingly nothing left here to satirize, much less to care about.
Spores:
Has Elena considered pardoning a Christmas carp?
Thats always a public-relations winner for U.S. presidents sparing a turkey on Thanksgiving.
On the bright side, Elena takes concrete steps in loosening ties with her fathers rotting corpse.
First, Zubak firmly tells the old guy off (You are a very poor influence on Elena.
The time has come for you to step away.
), and then the rebels send the glass casket flying over the balcony.
Agnes pitching her son on a move to France: The French sometimes smell of sweated onions.
And they have sort of dead eyes.
Dress a bit like bank clerks.
Would you like a French tart?
Elena increased female participation in the workforce by 37 percent.
Whos to argue with those numbers?
