Nigel Overstreet
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5/17/2013
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What are all the most celebrated personages wearing this season in the Neath?
Why it's these strapping new Kingscale Boots!
These smooth, scaled round toe ankle boots are what all the most devious and deadly courtiers are wearing in the Palace these days. Such intricate finery surely decimated the fingers of London's tiniest LB cobblers!
And just in time for all those fabulous, outdoor summer parties, it's these fresh Legunals!
These lovely pastels will delight all party goers as they taste and comment on the hors d'oeuvres. These loquacious legunals are perfect for debut of the shy young girl who might rather be seen than heard, but lets her hands do her talking.
The salivation is sure to keep one cool in the glaring heat of a London summer.
But are the head's of Londoner's to be laid bare this season. Surely not with these new milliner's delights
For the odder of the fifth City there is the symbol of royalty made from the lowliest of it's citizens
Be weary in this Fecund Amber Tiara, less you be mistaken for Royal Princess and swept off to the Shuttered Palace. It's loveliness is seconded only by it's silence and gaunt emaciation; something few of the Neath's finest hat's could claim before now.
For those who are less permissible in the Palace, but always welcome in the brimstone there a hat for the devilishly handsome
Since it's Fallen London debut to yellow eyed applause, Miss Sarah Bernhardt's infamous hat from the play of the same name has captivated the beautiful and the damned alike. From far across the blazing oceans, it is sure to be your soul's desire. Presuming you still have yours!
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Dolan
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5/31/2013
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As someone who's read more than 20 of Vance's books, I have to say The Dying Earth really doesn't deserve its status as his best-known work. It's good, yes, but owes its prestige mostly to being memorable and influential (it's from this work that D&D originally got its magic system). But he wrote much better stuff - my nod would have to go to the Durdane trilogy and the Demon Princes series. They preserve all of Vance's wit, sparkling prose, and predilection for crafting absurd and wonderful alien cultures, but at the same time display a much greater depth of characterization and, well, literary value.
Most of his books are more light-hearted adventure fare with an aim to entertain without really making you think too hard, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that, but with Durdane and the Demon Princes series (books 3-5 in particular) Vance clearly set his sights higher, and in my opinion succeeded with flying colors.
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Finvara
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6/4/2013
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Glad I didn't purchase the Matriarch, then.
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Nigel Overstreet
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5/17/2013
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Aximillio wrote:
 Parabola suits =) This is got to be watchful clothing, right?
I can wear it with my para-bola tie!
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Finvara
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5/18/2013
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ohhhhhhhgosh that hurts. I congratulate you on a correspondence level pun. The blood that runs from my ears is for you.
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Diptych
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5/21/2013
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I'm a bit baffled by the suit made of amber-glowing linen giving a Shadowy bonus, while the suit made of light-absorbing silk doesn't. Love the rifle and the smock, though!
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Owen Wulf
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5/21/2013
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 Infernal Sharpshooter's Rifle!
Well, what better way for the righteous to triumph over hell than to turn it's own weaponry against it?
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Finvara
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5/21/2013
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Then I am forewarned. I'll get the tiny thumbscrews.
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Flyte
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5/29/2013
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I think it's an Accomplishment. 'Years from now, wise mentors will warn wide-eyed young girls/boys/squid-things of the wretched fate that befell Thaddeus Wren, who thought cats and rats could get along.' Optionally accompanied by a 10% mark-up on future rat purchases at the pet shop.
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circe
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5/31/2013
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Alexis Tweeted about it - it's a tribute to Jack Vance who died recently. I am really looking forward to seeing the card. A great author who will be sadly missed.
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Adding no Suppers without prior arrangement, with only 5 Free Evenings a week and being a Patron I can't accept them all.
No Affluent Photographer, Sharing Research with Another Scholar or Boxed Cats accepted. I will send Boxed Cats though. All other social actions welcome. Will help menaces, please be reasonable.
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