Sporadically speaking

Textual silence may be one of my favourite phrases at the moment because it’s perfectly applicable most of the time.

( What may even be something like Socratic Method )

Thanks to the Russian Trinity Blood fandom, which always seems to be rather more organised than the English one, I’ve come across this image. I’d seen glimpses of it before elsewhere but hadn’t yet stumbled upon a flat version of the whole image which may or may not again be due to greater industriousness on the Russian fandom’s part.

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Generalgouverneur von Misr would be Governor General of Egypt, where 'Misr' is an awkward romanisation of Miṣr.

It’s taken me this long to figure that out.

And obliviousness aside it then certainly looks like the heir presumptive was sent away to govern a large enough province so that he could learn to rule, eventually culminating in his being capable of ruling the entire state. Or at least that should have been the way of it if there had been a reasonable chance of Seth dying of old age. Theory then being that Seth even went as far as using the Ottoman model in training an heir which backfired spectacularly because her continued presence required that said heir remain in a continual state of adolescence, and she certainly wasn’t prepared to take on the role of Valide Sultan instead.

Discovery (PG. 1667 words.)
Esther prefers to spend her time with the Professor rather than the other young clergy: this is the reason why.

Sherlock Holmes: the truth at last - David McKie, Guardian.co.uk
The above is interesting and something I might well have more thoughts on after I’ve read over a copy of the script for The Secret of Sherlock Holmes.

( Shisha, tea, spices & cigarillos )

Glancing over Act 42, sans translation at present, two images in particular struck me as a rather clever act of mirroring.

( “All the rules we make are broken” )