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- Vimes feeding baby dragons nuggets of coal
- "Down, boy! Couchant! I said couchant! No! *Not* rampant!"
- co-religionists Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets & Smite-The-Unbeliever-With-Cunning-Arguments
- "items of doubtful provenance, such as coins dated '52 BC'"
- "It was easy to be a vegetarian by day. It was preventing yourself becoming a humanitarian at night that took the real effort."

"A door that did not open at his knock was a novelty in its own right, and a kind of relief as well. All the world confessed to him. He confessed to me."

Some synergy w /ON style (cf. Shippey's Laughing Shall I Die). Vinaver on Chanson de Roland: "the final catastrophe emerges not out of an articulated causal scheme, but, with heightened intensity, out of a series of logically unconnected but emotionally significant events and situations. There is no need for the poet to _explain_; as Auerbach has it, 'the things which happen are stated with paratactic bluntness...'"

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Just wanted to say the name "Havelock Vetinari" stands out since I've been reading "Havelok the Dane." That is all.

omg - I got as far as the account book, in which JRRT recorded his hours of study and the corresponding number of kisses Edith owed him (!) - once I picked myself up off the floor and could breathe normally again, I switched over to Maker of Middle-earth to see what they said about it.