Re: guess who?

Here, Konrad Gaertner <kgaertner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> William December Starr wrote:
> > 
> > In article
<25f59857-6bd1-4892-823d-3512801ea20b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > johan.g.larson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 said:
> > 
> > > The following quote is from a recently published novel. Who is the
> > > author?
> > >
> > > "We might already be reveling in our seizure of a valuable ****p
> > > and cargo, celebrating by absorbing costly essences and engaging
> > > in brutally non-consensual *****c entertainments of a type I find
> > > deeply gratifying but which are difficult to arrange on a
> > > commercial basis.  Why this delay?"
> > 
> > I'll guess that it's Scott Lynch's RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES, just
> > because I've heard that it involves pirates, and because of the
> > general impression I've gotten of Lynch's writing around here.  Not
> > that I've ever actually read anything of his, mind you.
> 
> Maybe, though I don't recall this passage.  Or it could be Gene
> Wolfe's _Pirate Freedom_ which I haven't read.

Definitely not _Pirate Freedom_ -- Wolfe's narrator uses a naive,
almost childlike voice. (Although he's not a child.)

--Z

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