Ha! I’ve been waiting for your post about the disgusting English candy (or boiled sweets, sommit which I only appreciated sounds sinister typing it out now…). I suppose there’s a connection as well with all the drugs gobbled in the book, and with the perverse ways molecular engineering is put to use, whether by drug chemists or sugar confectioners, both imperialist off-shoots in their way.
Ha! I’ve been waiting for your post about the disgusting English candy (or boiled sweets, sommit which I only appreciated sounds sinister typing it out now…). I suppose there’s a connection as well with all the drugs gobbled in the book, and with the perverse ways molecular engineering is put to use, whether by drug chemists or sugar confectioners, both imperialist off-shoots in their way.