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"...Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown in a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds."

"She understood the maids back home a lot more when the sun gleamed on his shoulders.
Ahem."

Hehehehe.

"She understood the maids at home a lot more when the sun gleamed on his shoulders.
Ahem."

Pfffft

"She remembered when Mr. Griffith from the Nonconformist chapel had been invited to speak in the parish church. The sermon was rather damp, because he spat a fine spray when he shouted, but the man was so full of God that it overflowed everywhere."

"... without them I would go into the dark water right now. I asked for reasons, and here they are, yelling and smelling and demanding, the last people in the world, and I need them. Without them I would just be a figure on the grey beach, a lost boy, not knowing who I am. But they all know me. I matter to them, and that is who I am."

"They had been with the people, excited but not knowing why. He wrapped them in papervine and weighed them down and sent them in the current anyway. Dogs would want to stay with the people, because they were people, too, in their way."

What's this water, leaking from my eyes?

Technically Socrates was put to death because he kept making jokes during the jury's conference. They were going to pardon him.

I understand it's for entertainment purposes, but I wouldn't take Geoffrey of Monmouth as a credible source. Sure, it's funny to link Aeneas and Brutus to Britain (with the name descending from it, ignoring the Britones already living there ), but that's about it. To point out his credibility, I'd point to the chapter about Merlin's prophetic dream.

SPARTA! (this has nothing to do with where I am in the story, just the meme).

Ugh, be consistent in your references: either tell the story concisely, or refer to your previous books. Not both!
Also, the amount of references to your own work is getting worrisome.

"Perhaps the first, but certainly not the last, time that a skid mark gave the game away.": Stephen Fry having some cheeky (pun intended) fun in the commentary.
"Thank you, Stephen, we didn't need that.": his editors having none of it.

Wow, the letters are big.
I did get the bigger edition, so that checks out.

Het is vreemd een prille liefde te zien ontwikkelen bij iemand waarvan je zeker weet dat die binnen 2 jaar sterft.

I'm not crying. You're crying.

Drama! Mystery! Crime! Swift (misplaced) justice!

It is not about what words you use in a love letter, it is what you say with them.

I would refrain from using the word "cunt", though.