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thesun.co.uk ^ | 5/9/2017 | Tom Michael

[Free in Texas]

Heh, heh. Very good, sir.

[thulldud]

In old prints, the orientation is always reversed, like in a mirror. Thus, a picture of a right-handed swordsman will be left-handed, even if his back is to you in the picture. A lefty would be right-handed.

I couldn't help but think of "The Princess Bride" when I saw it.

I tried reading the whole thing once, but the style was too puffy and full of mooshy stuff, so I quit as soon as the queen met up with her boyfriend who wouldn’t be her boyfriend even though they luvd each other so much, etc.

Yeah, "l'amour courtois", and that. Dumas did mention in the text that the moral codes were pretty loose in 1623, as compared to his own time. Imagine what he would think of today's mores.

Ugh.

It was actually pretty easy to read aloud. Of course, part of the credit due to that goes to the translator, and some of the rest to his ghostwriters, I mean, "assistants".