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I imagine they got plenty of letters, as it was.

You have "make love", both in French and English which meant to court and now... Guaranteed a giggle in class, likewise "baiser", originally to kiss, now slang for sexual intercourse.

I've visited the other, his house in Paris and... likewise. It helps that the subject of the cult was very much worthy of being worshipped.

Neatly put. Even more neatly put. There are passages where I just have water instead of eyes. He is straightforward that he goes straight for your heartstrings, isn't apologetic about it in the least. Valjean's last weeks are pure "well, this person who I have shown you as stoic for the whole...

A complete nonsense, by the way, as Dvořak and Ravel were very keen on it and used their time in the US (and later contact with the Parisian jazz clubs) to introduce new ideas and style in their music.

In which I was very restrained and kept myself from hurling invective after invective, I should note.

A later Japan thought the US might go to war over the assassination of Charlie Chaplin to remain in bonkers' territory.

I hate that book with a passion, all the more so because I share my name with the protagonist and he's about as insufferable as Stendhal's heroes. It is rumoured about him, it would fit with his early career but nothing was ever confirmed. Yeah, about the second, when Scotland sends us their...

He plays percussions and has replaced cymbals with frying pans.

Of course, Pratchett understood butterflies, he literally made them into plot-altering devices in a later book.

France will have kept its entire industrial might, instead of losing I can't even remember how much access to coal, steel and the factories for using them, I think it was more than half. It would have made demands about the RN, because the French Marine was mostly focused on the Mediterranean...

I had to do an oral presentation on it. I was less than impressed, but the lecturer was a big fan of it. He wrote that Louis XVIII said it was worth 100,000 men. Colour me even more dubious about that. As far as I'm concerned, he does a great job of showing what clinical depression is in a...

If he stays in Corsica, that's because he and his family would have made peace with Paoli, so he probably gets a leg-up in the military or political set-up, and while not commanding the resources of the French Republic, the latter has no fleet left after Toulon, so it's possible his tactical...

And also what are spears and pikes.

Seen also with the seeress of Kell. Yeah, it doesn't feel it. The anniversary was a few days ago, lots of GNU messages going up and down Twitter in memoriam.

That opening always stayed with me. Dunno if he wrote it when he was 17 or 43, but damn. The trousers of time giving rise to watching all the people you care about dying is going to come back with Jingo and the imp detailing to Vimes how all the Watch would die if he had stayed in Ankh-Morpork.

That plural nicely ambiguous.

Aha! the cohesion rears its head again. As well it should.

I'd have thought between that and the Solomonid dynasty, they would have gone extra hard for Queen of Sheba.

Ken Follett did one book set in current times, Whiteout, and he spends dozens of pages making very sure everyone's cellphones run out of juice, are out of range or so on, because all his plots that work great in Cold War settings are fried the minute someone can call the cops.