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"En ge zegt by-voorbeeld -horribile auditu voor my- met de woordenrykheid die eigen is aan gehuwde mannen: 'Hm... zó... weet ik nog niet.'
Welnu, barbaar, lees verder!"

Nippon mania was a thing, even before the 1st world war.

Hold on, that's The Mask of the Red Death!

Few things: there's a guy falling down the stairs, an absolute twink of a protagonist, and a line so cringe that I tried to forget it since high school, when I first read it.

The endless musings of a divorcee dad.

"we think that time 'passes', flows past us; but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book(...) so the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers."

I... hm. That's a way to describe it.

"But it's all just history. Things like that couldn't happen now!"

Ah, the subtle touch of foreshadowing.

Le Guin casually explains how a society without money works to a seven-year-old. And anarchy.
"Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order"

Discussing epicurianism and soicism, I see.

Error: end not found.

"...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