The Blog of Roon

I find it uncommonly bizarre that Shirley’s character trajectory is recapitulating a genre of Victorian literature that I knew absolutely nothing whatever about, not even the fact of its existence. I didn’t plan any of this, honestly I didn’t—it just happened.

I can’t give details just yet because they’d spoil Shirley’s MacGuffin (what, you thought he didn’t have one?), but rest assured I’ll spill the beans when the Ellipse is over.

Until then, I’m shaking my head in bemusement and putting together a reading list. (Mostly public-domain ebooks, by the way. If some 22nd-century roleplayer recapitulates, say, the Cold War spy, s/he is probably irretrievably screwed.)

And wondering whether this could turn into a novel. I’m terribly afraid it could.

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