A Better Product

     I have regained enthusiasm for my little project. This is mainly because I have significantly improved it. It is now about double in size and I believe will be a substantial read. I am all ready to go with the second edition but I need some money. I am thoroughly delighted with my new place and that I don't have to work. But I'm on a fixed income and there is very little to spare. I need about 900 dollars. (I'm only chronicling this, knowing no one is reading it). 465 to the publisher for a post-publication edit, 15 for a new photo from Adobe Stock, and 300 for a new image for Literary Goons, which I absolutely must have. This one is from a French news agency and clearly illustrates the device of memory holing, a hallmark of totalitarianism.  It is a twin photo  showing Stalin with some of his officials, including Yezhov, who was an architect of the purges, on the left. On the right is the same photo with Yezhov airbrushed out, after he himself had been destroyed. It is ironic that the two photos I paid several hundred dollars for are from the Soviet Union and Communist China.