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| Natwaf_akidna 03/07/17 11:08:08 PM #110: | What little notes I've saved about Lords and Ladies Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad. The 14th Discworld book is full of hilarious lines and situations (Weatherwax's and Ridcully's less than romantic reunion, holding one's hat in the Ai-Senor-Mexican-Bandits-Have-Raided-Our-Village position,the names of the Morris Men like Bestiality Carter, that absolutely marvelous Elf quote, etc), but Margrat and the Morris men just irked me when they caused the invasion to happen. Reaper Man > Small Gods > Guards! Guards! > Wyrd Sisters > Moving Pictures > Mort > Witches Abroad > Lords and Ladies > Sourcery > Pyramids > The Light Fantastic > Equal Rites > The Colour of Magic > Eric --- Natwaf congratulates DpObliVion, Winner of the 2015 BGE Guru contest! Despite, ya know, destroying my entry personally ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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