Rysiek
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4/23/2016
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Well, I am looking for famous writers and playwrights in London. I know Huffam... the guy from the Gazette is Charles Dickens. But what about other famous Victorians? Oscar Wilde for example? I know Doyle won't exist, since Holmes is partially the Inplacable Detective, partially the Honey Addled one. Agatha Christie was from the 1920s, so she won't appear. So won't Hercules Poirot and Miss Marple. Are there other famous RL authors in FL expect Huffam/Dickens?
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The incredible Warsovian. She certainly didn't steal your diamond necklace. That idea is RIDICULOUS...
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I apologize for any and all anachronisms. I am too lazy to check some facts if I am sure they are from the 1890s or sometimes think they are.
Oh, and by the way, I am not polish, I am GERMAN to clarify for heavens sake... tylko po polsku mowie. Um Himmelswillen...
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dov
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4/24/2016
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On Corpsecage Island, you can find a buried text, sealed by the Ministry of Public Decency:
"It's a decade-old diary. You flip through the pages. The author was evidently a radical thinker. Good Lord! There's some complex stuff here about class and capital. It's no wonder the author ended up here."
So it seems that Karl Marx (or at least his writings) made it to the Neath.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
4/23/2016
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I think Oscar Wilde was mentioned in association with Mr. Pages, as the The Epigrammatic Irishman.
edited by suinicide on 4/23/2016
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A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence.
RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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Professor Strix
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4/24/2016
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It's too early for Bram Stoker to have released his most famous book (and it only became huge after his death and the subsequent movie adaptation (no, really)), but he was respected in the theater world, so I suppose that we will find him fangirling after Sir Irving somewhere.
It would be funny, development team. Just sayin'.
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"THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used."
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Diptych
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4/24/2016
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The generic calling-card image is that of C. Auguste Dupin, so either Poe's great detective is floating around the Neath somewhere, or someone's using a Poe ref as a pseudonym. The honey-addled 'tec is almost certainly Holmes - artefacts from one or two of his cases appear around the city as well - though that doesn't mean we don't have a Conan Doyle around somewhere who previously worked as his friend Watson's literary agent.
The plans of the Pianolist's zub include a quote from Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass, to be precise. Now, that's a book that postdates the Fall, so either it was written on the Surface and imported, or Carroll is floating around down here somewhere too. Perhaps a member of the Set?
Finally, they're painters rather than writers, but we know what came of Richard Dadd and William Holman Hunt... poor devils.
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Diptych
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4/24/2016
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He might not be Chesterton, but he's immersed in the Chestertonian side of Fallen London up to his hat.
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Clifton Royston
Posts: 110
4/27/2016
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Hmmmm.
I've just finished an encounter with my benefactor the Red-robed Monk ("from the northern part of the subcontinent") with a soft spot for shadowy types, and a young disciple who has a love of luxury and a very strong taste for the Great Game.
Surely someone before me must have been reminded of a certain young Anglo-Irish boy growing up in the subcontinent who enthusiastically entered into the Great Game, despite the good wishes of his Tibetan Buddhist patron.
Would that errant disciple's name by any chance be Kim?
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Currently accepting all non-harmful social actions, at least until I learn better.
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