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Waffles54
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7/19/2013
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There is a new blue storylet about march of the calender council trading coffee, you can either buy 2 for 10 fate or exchange 11~12 for something . Has anyone exchanged their coffee for the something?
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Flyte
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7/30/2013
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
What I want to know is, why "Talleyrand"? Charles Maurice de Talleyrand* wrote:
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. Edit: on reflection, I do not trust this March. The drink of the Working Man is tea.** Lethean Tea is by its nature unsuitable for regular consumption, and it seems to me that a true man of the people would import a more wholesome variety as a matter of some urgency.
Dimly remembered hot-beverage-history: some temperance campaigners regarded tea drinking as a major vice of the working class, because many spent a large portion of their income on it. Also, coffeehouses were very popular in the 17th and early 18th centuries; one explanation that has been offered for their decline is that the public had an engrained expectation that a cup would cost a penny, so that inflation forced coffeehouses to to cut more and more corners, until their offerings became undrinkably vile...
* Allegedly.
** When the Working Man needs must be sober; otherwise, I concede, he is partial to gin.
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Zeedee
Posts: 276
7/31/2013
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
What I want to know is, why "Talleyrand"? I rather like Flyte's quote. My guess is altogether different but also complementary:
Talleyrand is an offstage but influential character near the end of The Surgeon's Mate, one of the 20 books in the Aubrey-Maturin series of seafaring novels by Patrick O'Brian.
- http://www.answers.com/topic/charles-maurice-de-talleyrand#In_fiction
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels — 20 completed and one unfinished — by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and secret agent. The first novel, Master and Commander, was published in 1969 and the last finished novel in 1999.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series
The Surgeon's Mate is only remarkable here because it's the seventh novel in the series, and you should all know of FL's obsession with the number 7. Besides, the Bazaar has been echoing tidbits about the Surgeon's Child and the Cladery Heart for the past week.[spoiler]"The Surgeon's Child he swam alone, across the wide black zees. The Surgeon's Child he came unknown to old charred sovereignties..."
The Surgeon's Child. He'd chosen the roof-top life, and we left him untouched, as we always do. We knew we would regret it, but fair's fair.
The Surgeon's Child. How could he know the Cladery Heart was ours? How could we know what we had done to sever it? Poor Heart. Poor boy.
The journey home was easier for the Surgeon's Child. He lay atop the Heart as its fibrils pulsed it home. Smiled at the quiet false-stars.
The journey was harder for the Heart. The waters had changed. The Neath was colder. Mt Nomad roamed here, roamed there. Years were gone.
Cladery Heart! We heard your beat approach. You were a part of us, but not our best. We had banished you away to keep the lacre clean.
Cladery Heart! The stories always end when we devour some unfortunate. We are rarely hungry. But we know our duties.
Cladery Heart! The Surgeon's Child. We understand orphans. Must we devour him too? ... well, a toothsome fragment he is.[/spoiler]Additionally, Alexis has said "Is @EchoBazaar talking about a unique, backer-only ship? Or is it just spouting crazy like a whale with an overactive blowhole?"
So, fellows, too far-fetched? ...Or not far enough? :P
Honestly, I prefer Flyte's quote as an explanation.
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Please do not send me monstrous invitations tinged with the inks of the undernight or Boxed Cats. (I rotate my Starveling list, so it might take me a while to reach your name. I haven't forgotten anyone!)
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