My dream last night
The scene: 'Monarch' tube station, on the Hammersmith and City and District lines. Midnight. A girl arrives, buys a bottle of water and a kitkat, and makes her way down to the platform worrying vaguely about whether stopping to buy a kitkat has made her miss the last train. It hasn't; there's one more coming although nobody will tell the people
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I swear I did not make this up just to please you, though you are one of only about three people in the world who will understand it completely...
(Also, it occurred to me after I'd posted this that Gil and Gawain should probably never ever be allowed in the same room, and it is kind of too late now...)
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‘It’s a strange affectation,’ said Prospero, leaning back in his chair and surveying the crowd. ‘A noblewoman - surely her bearing tells us as much - wearing a mask in the style of an artisan’s tools?’
‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ Gawain raised his eyebrows behind his own mask. ‘I was wondering about the thing itself. Cogs and springs, Prospero - the inner workings of a machine, proudly displayed on the outside of a face. An illusion of what lies beneath. I think that’s rather splendid,’ he added, under his breath. Prospero gave him a sharp look but said nothing ( ... )
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