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Written in an epistolary style keeps the book somewhat ambient, as though we are not to derive meaning from the story, but instead arrive at a sense of understanding how things were for people who had the ability to write things.

O, Haraldai, tu mane žavi, gąsdini, masini, atstumi, trauki!

Strange one

I am quite certain that Erik Lange would be the first to sincerely regret that great sums of the lord’s money were spent so mindlessly on sin, degradation, and depravity, especially if he knew that I was in your lordship’s service and had already told you everything, or the essentials anyway.

Clear entire day and night, mild weather and there reigned χασματα; in the morning ♀ could be seen intensely red till it went a degree supra horizontem, then she was not so red.

[Greek: chasmata = chasms?, ♀ = Mars, Latin: above the horizon.]

Clear at first then dark, clear during afternoon and night till midnight, since appeared mirifica chasmata rubri et versicoloris. Patches of fog, mild northwest. Northeast, morning gloom, since sunshine and hard frost. The north, quiet, snow.

[Latin: Wonderful red and multicoloured chasms.]

Knowing before she married him that Otte Thott would die prematurely had made the loss easier on her and little Tage, she said, and added that my parents’ thoughtlessness had left me defenseless against the grim powers of ♄ and ♂ and ♀. However, I should not despair but trust in our savior and his imminent Second Coming, as clearly heralded by the new star and the great conjunction.
[♄=Saturn, ♂=Mars, ♀=Venus]

Falk Gøye has burned every page of the theological piece he has been working on after Tyge gave him his honest opinion on its form as well as its content.

The fallen leaves light up in glee at their own swift transfiguration, but before long everything will be brown and gray on the island, the sky gray, the sea around us gray. A small trickle of embers through the clouds at occasu et ortu ☉is, more like the blood from a schoolboy’s flogged back than a flaming river rushing through Tartarus.

[Latin/i>: Sunset and sunrise.]