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En anglais on appelle ça "foreshadowing"

"St John's claims to have seven quadrangles" this feels like something it should be easy to confirm one way or the other?

Where is st catz

Well I wasn't expecting *that*

Ahahahaha wtf

Chartreux !

Jansénistes !

everything really wrapped up niely. hmm, much quicker than usual. i guess that last fifty pages will be full of legal formalities and such.

i, uh.......i regret having read that straight before bed

No. What the fuck is this absolute shit

No. NO.

"The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel."

finished Le bal de Sceaux and.......that took a bit of a creepy turn.

this is all terribly unrealistic: Dominicans are friars, not monks; they have priors, not abbots; their habits are white, not black.

yes it absolutely is hash jam.

is...is that a bowl of hash jam?

ooh this chapter was so good! an empty tavern in a dusty baked plain. a mysterious priest rides out of the heat-haze, ties up his horse. engages the tavern-owner about the past, and wants to know what happened to his old friends...

i'd forgotten how downright *funny* Dumas can be.

40% of the way in, i've just finished with the introduction and prefaces.