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incandescensHm. Going through this particular chunk of Scales (the section on magic) and hacking out a reasonably accurate translation is helping me understand certain subtleties of background which I'd never really caught before. Well, good.
Good points about new bath: big. Bad points: takes ages to fill. Debatable points: can no longer lodge self in such a way as to be able to doze off. Must investigate this further, possibly with flannel under back of neck, next weekend.
Have moved Vampire: The Masquerade books en masse to the spare shelf in the bookcase behind the television, thus freeing up a lot of space in the bookshelves in my bedroom. Finished the row with Gehenna, naturally.
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"You talk as if you were a poet yourself," said Bagshaw.
"Thank your stars I'm not," said Father Brown. "Thank your lucky stars a priest has to be more charitable than a poet. Lord have mercy on us, if you knew what a crushing, what a cruel contempt he feels for the lot of you, you'd feel as if you were under Niagara."
-- The Mirror of the Magistrate, GK Chesterton
Good points about new bath: big. Bad points: takes ages to fill. Debatable points: can no longer lodge self in such a way as to be able to doze off. Must investigate this further, possibly with flannel under back of neck, next weekend.
Have moved Vampire: The Masquerade books en masse to the spare shelf in the bookcase behind the television, thus freeing up a lot of space in the bookshelves in my bedroom. Finished the row with Gehenna, naturally.
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"You talk as if you were a poet yourself," said Bagshaw.
"Thank your stars I'm not," said Father Brown. "Thank your lucky stars a priest has to be more charitable than a poet. Lord have mercy on us, if you knew what a crushing, what a cruel contempt he feels for the lot of you, you'd feel as if you were under Niagara."
-- The Mirror of the Magistrate, GK Chesterton
