unearths some literary gems.
From The Murder of Gonzago, by R. T. Raichev:
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"It will be some time before Lord Remnant is forgotten."
"Roderick's personality may have been more forcefully colourful than those of the bland and timid masses, but one does tend to forget people the moment they stop coming to dinner, Provost. Certain people one even forgets during dinner. It's most disconcerting. You look across the table and you wonder, who the hell is that?"
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"Recordings of various amateur theatricals. So tedious. Everybody dressed up as dentists or minor émigré royalty or organic vegetables or Christmas tree decorations."
[N.B. Dressing as the decorations is a nice twist on the "disguised as a Christmas tree" theme, eh?]
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[Bonus: In the context of a tale about King Midas and the anthropomorphized (female) earth, someone refers to the latter as "Mrs. Earth."]
