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| “Gods, just thinking about it is enough to make one weep! Not that I have been. Weeping, that is. But - look, Adrianna, have //you// ever seen the last remnants of something you used to cherish get thrown out with yesterday’s bilge water? And even if perhaps you don’t cherish it quite as much as you once maybe might have done, it still stings?” | “Gods, just thinking about it is enough to make one weep! Not that I have been. Weeping, that is. But - look, Adrianna, have //you// ever seen the last remnants of something you used to cherish get thrown out with yesterday’s bilge water? And even if perhaps you don’t cherish it quite as much as you once maybe might have done, it still stings?” | ||
| - | Adrianna opens her mouth. Closes it. Then: “I couldn’t say, Miss Terrec. But that sounds like an awful lot of mixed metaphors for one sentence.” | + | Adrianna opens her mouth. Closes it. Then: “I couldn’t say, Miss Terrec. But that sounds like an awful lot of mixed metaphors.” |
| “Oh, it’s Tabitha, darling - you’ve seen me entirely disrobed - but the point is, this isn’t about lace, per se. It’s about identity! And - and dignity! Plus, with my wardrobe diminished to this degree, we’ll be entirely bereft of costumes for the musical!” | “Oh, it’s Tabitha, darling - you’ve seen me entirely disrobed - but the point is, this isn’t about lace, per se. It’s about identity! And - and dignity! Plus, with my wardrobe diminished to this degree, we’ll be entirely bereft of costumes for the musical!” | ||
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| Pietro takes a moment to process this. “But… we don’t use just the one knot.” | Pietro takes a moment to process this. “But… we don’t use just the one knot.” | ||
| - | Tabitha waves her hand, as if consigning this to irrelevance. “Nonetheless, one can grow to like all sorts of things. All sorts of knots, I mean. Liking the Highwayman’s Hitch might have appeared inconceivable at first, but that isn’t to say it prevents me from ever using the Sheet Bend, or even experimenting with a vast array of different types of knots, from all kinds of places! Really, I oughtn’t to allow any fondness for the Highwayman’s Hitch to disconcert me, even if I currently happen to be resident of a place in which that one knot predominates.” | + | Tabitha waves her hand, as if consigning this to irrelevance. “Nonetheless, one can grow to like all sorts of things. All sorts of knots, I mean. Liking the Highwayman’s Hitch might have appeared inconceivable at first, but that isn’t to say it prevents me from ever using the Sheet Bend, or even experimenting with a vast array of knots, from all kinds of places! Really, I oughtn’t to allow any fondness for the Highwayman’s Hitch to disconcert me, even if I currently happen to be resident of a place in which that one knot predominates.” |
| “… Yes,” says Pietro, with experimental certainty. | “… Yes,” says Pietro, with experimental certainty. | ||
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