Sunday, March 29, 2026

Day 11.

Page 15 opens with more poetic license, misspellings, and nonsense. Another paragraph that is style over substance. Tone instead of information. Just descriptions of the Irish countryside. For nerds, there is a mention of the Formoreans, but just a mention. Like someone reciting from a book of long names. Or a long book of names.

Paragraph two is mocking gossipers, I suppose, but what could have been a single sentence is 167 words of nothing. We are back at the pub, and everyone is talking at once. Someone is flirting with someone else. Some mention of an upcoming wedding. Someone is playing the drums.

Then comes a single-word paragraph, "Hop!" Do not ask me to explain it. I can't. It's just a mood shift as we introduce a new character…

The last paragraph introduces a clubfoot thug name Carl or Joe Bigger, I think. There's an anagram for Name and Amen that hints at something. But it's clear that Carl/Joe is hunchback and big. Pigmaid is the insult used to describe him. His chest is so big, he has man boobs.

The page ends with the mentioning of months, all misspelled, with pouriose for May, which I happen to know is French slang for pussy, but also a word for the rainy fifth month of the revolution's calendar. Talk about a joke that doesn't pay off.

I think this is my shortest review yet. The page took too long to read and I don't have a lot to say about it.

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