![]() ![]() So I am grateful for my copy of Folwer’s. It is also an art, and one that I can only practice so much in a personal library deficient of unread-more precisely, never-to-be-completely-read-books. It’s also the sore admittance of defeat under the weight of time: a limited life is what I have and humble about it I must be.īut if done with mindful dedication and focus, leafing through is a form of meditation. When to skip, when to glance, when to read. It requires stamina, patience, wakefulness, and a winnowing sensibility that is at odds with any form of perfectionism. Leafing through a book, be it 70 pages of fiction or 700 pages of dictionary, is an affair not to be underestimated. I hadn’t leafed through the entire Dictionary! In researching it, however, I happened on the shade entry with its gem of an analogy and that made me realise something: I’d forgotten to complete the minimum act of love shown to any book I take seriously. The Nectars of Paradisewas meant to be the last post in this series about Fowler’s Dictionary. The image I actually have in mind is David Hockney’s Pool with Two Figures from 1971. The pool-water analogy is not as trifling as it seems. So shade fills a shadow to the brim and no farther, and while s hadow belongs to a concrete object, shade belongs to the world. The details of this diversity are too many to be catalogued here, but it is a sort of clue to remember that shadow is a piece of shade, related to it as, e.g., pool to water. ![]() But his mnemonic “clue” to their difference does enlighten. Different or same? Similar? How?įowler’s admits they have an almost identical meaning which branches out into a considerable diversity of idiom. Dracula in Bram Stoker’s eponymous novel. Game note: Trade two Strange Catches for a Sooth & Cooper Long-BoxĪnother Day: Time, the Healer has different status according to your actions, defined by the number in front of the quality.I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may. Game note: Trade a Lamentable Relic for three Unread Logs. Offer the shivering monkeys a Lamentable Relic Game note: Trade three Ambiguous Eoliths for an Extraordinary Implication. Game note: Trade a Hunting-Trophy for four Watchful Curios.Ī Retired Monster-Hunter wants something to remember his glory days "He runs his knobbled fingers over the trophy clicks his tongue. Have a One-Eyed Scrimshander carve something from your Hunting Trophy Game note: Trade a Lamentable Relic for two Moves in the Great Game. Something Awaits You = That's all for now Game note: Trade a Drowning-Pearl for two Solacefruits. Something Awaits You = That's all for now. Ensure you have a place in your hold!Ī Gleaming Marauder is assembling an immense hoard of Drowning Pearls Game note: Trade a Strange Catch for a consignment of Scintillack. The Sisters need provisions for the Feast of St Neot Here's a handy list of these opportunities: (Click Expand on the right to open it) Sometimes these interactions require you to trade something specific in exchange for something (possibly) more valuable. Many ports will have trades of common Curiosity items available after Another Day: Time, the Healer ≥ 50. Since this quality represents the game time, certain interactions require that you do them in a certain period of time.įor instance, you can only do the action Of wine in Godfall while your Another Day: Time, the Healer ≤ 199.Īlso, Mutton Island may change with Another Day: Time, the Healer ≥ 40, one reason why you might want to keep this value low (until you farm Iron and Veils from Mutton Island). ![]() Once you have this quality, certain interaction may be affected. You will see the message "Something has changed in the Neath". This quality is gained and increases by +6 to +10 by docking in Fallen London when you have Something Awaits You and by choosing the Collect messages from the Harbourmaster action. It is linked to the progress of time while playing the game. ![]()
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