Morning came, eventually, and by ten or eleven o'clock a giddy and rollicking company were gathered at Judge Thatcher's, and everything was ready for a start.
But as Geoff White, a bbc journalist, explains in his rollicking new book, that backwardness has helped make a handful of North Koreans very technologically savvy indeed.
但正如 BBC 记者杰夫·怀特 (Geoff White) 在他欢快新书中所解释那样,落后确实帮助少数朝鲜变得非常精通技术。
A rumpled English archaeologist (Josh O'Connor) slouches his way around Tuscany in the 1980s and helps a rollicking band of grave robbers unearth Etruscan artefacts to sell on the black market.
In the first few pages, she moves from a snail escaping a pot of escargots to a multi-century history of Soho before settling down to tell a rollicking tale of pimps and prostitutes, property and posterity.