Thursday, April 29, 2010

the Trapezium with the red-hot Star-Whip

'Oh no,' she said, 'you're coming with me. I've been reading the latest Jang love manual, the Purple Summit. You're going to marry me for the afternoon and we're going to do everything it says together, including the Trapezium with the red-hot Star-Whip, and -'

'Kley,' I said, 'look at me. Do I look strong enough to go through anything like that?'

'Of course you don't,' she snapped. 'That's how you had the body made, isn't it? But if I know you -'

''Kley,' I said, 'you don't.'

-- Drinking Sapphire Wine by Tanith Lee

There are things I want to write here, but I shan't put fingers to keyboard. What do you think after reading the above? What would you write?

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