----- Original Message ----- From: "Damien Sullivan" <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:38 PM Subject: TRIH Limerick > I'm working on adapting To Reign in Hell's cosmology for Ars Magica, and just > happened to analyze Ariel's limerick to Leviathan, on page 21. It has a dirty > structure which I had not appreciated before. Might have been more obvious if > read aloud. > > Thought process: > * That's not a limerick, the fifth line doesn't rhyme. > * Oh wait, if I look inside... > * Now I get why she splashed him. > > -xx- Damien X-) Damn it, I can remember the scene, but the limerick doesn't immediately come to mind. Now I have to get up. Hmm, on page 33 and 34 in this copy: "The judgements that you tend to pass, On poets you wish to harass, Would give me to swear, Were I unaware, That you are naught but an asset to the Heaenly throne, wherefore I leave you alone." jeff -selflessly walking the two feet to the bookcase, so you don't have too.