NPPF - Foreword - Summary / Commentary (3)

[David Morris]

--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> Page 16-17:
> "another person ([Shade's] former literary agent) has wondered with a sneer
if Mrs. Shade's tremulous signature might not have been penned 'in some
peculiar kind of red ink.'"
> 
> Red is the color most associated with King Charles II (see 133 for instance).
 Also, a "peculiar kind of red ink" implies a deal with the devil.

As in "signed in blood."  But in this case the blood would be Shade's.

DM

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