IVIV20: Moving faster than Doc had ever seen him, 354-357

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sun Jan 17 10:31:32 CST 2010


On Jan 17, 2010, at 8:05 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> The readings of readings, the limits of reading, the evasive sublime,
> ineffible text ...

	"Allow us," said Nigel, "to introduce Miss—Or actually, as she's
	a seventeenth degree Adept, one ought properly to say
	'Tzaddik,' except that obviously—"

	"Well blimey, it's really only old Yashmeen, isn't it," added
	Neville.

	"Well put Neville, and why don't you go reward yourself with a
	pie or something?"

	"Perhaps Nigel you'd like one up your nose as well."

	"Silence, driveling ones," snarled the girl. "Imagine how idiotic
	they'd be if they could talk."

	The two gazed back with expressions in which hopelessly
	smitten erotic obsession could not really be ruled out, and Lew
	thought he heard Nigel sigh, "The Tetractys isn't the only thing
	round here that's ineffable."




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