Ghyll:Daniel Mboya - Revision history

Morbus Iff: Fixing links to point to Iganefta-on-the-Sea.

2005-07-26T23:57:43Z

Fixing links to point to Iganefta-on-the-Sea.

Jcowan: Scholarly rejoinder

2005-07-09T03:25:19Z

Scholarly rejoinder

Morbus Iff: Adding scholar comment.

2005-06-13T13:50:48Z

Adding scholar comment.

Morbus Iff: Copyediting. Monday is one hot mistress.

2005-06-13T13:47:52Z

Copyediting. Monday is one hot mistress.

Jcowan: Tense errors

2005-06-09T20:44:42Z

Tense errors

Jcowan: Oopsie, illegal syntax

2005-06-09T01:44:52Z

Oopsie, illegal syntax

Jcowan: First draft

2005-06-09T01:44:18Z

First draft

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'''Daniel Mboya''' is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the [[rejah], the clerk, the [[Folktown|Mayor]], and the chief mourner. [[Vemish]] signed it. And nobody has ever claimed that Vemish is ''verbally'' unreliable, for all he tends to botch anything ''physical'' he chooses to put his hand to.

Young Daniel was as dead as a door-nail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or [[Folktown|the City]]'s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Daniel was as dead as a door-nail.

[[Vemish]] knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? V. and he were friends practically since their infancy. V. was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend (pretty much), and sole mourner (also pretty much). And even Vemish was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he solemnised the day of Daniel's funeral with the start of his second trip through the [[Azura Mines]]. The mention of the funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Daniel Mboya is dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that [[Gimlet]]'s father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own house wall, than there would be in any other middle-aged Ghyllian rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot -- say the boardwalk of [[Iganefta]]-on-the-Sea for instance -- literally to astonish his son's weak mind.

''Is that all? Can you really call this an Encyclopedia article? Humbug, I say!'' --Burgengute

'''Citations''': [[Agony uncle]], [[Folktown]], [[Gimlet]].

--[[User:Jcowan|John Cowan]] 21:44, 8 Jun 2005 (EDT)

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 Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or [[Folktown|the City]]'s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Daniel is as dead as a door-nail.
-[[Vemish]] knows he is dead? Of course he does. How could it be otherwise? V. and he were friends practically since their infancy. V. was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend (pretty much), and sole mourner (also pretty much). And even Vemish was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he solemnised the day of Daniel's funeral with the start of his second trip through the [[Azura Mines]]. The mention of the funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Daniel Mboya is dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that [[Gimlet]]'s father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own house wall, than there would be in any other middle-aged Ghyllian rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot -- say the boardwalk of [[Iganefta]]-on-the-Sea for instance -- literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
+[[Vemish]] knows he is dead? Of course he does. How could it be otherwise? V. and he were friends practically since their infancy. V. was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend (pretty much), and sole mourner (also pretty much). And even Vemish was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he solemnised the day of Daniel's funeral with the start of his second trip through the [[Azura Mines]]. The mention of the funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Daniel Mboya is dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that [[Gimlet]]'s father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own house wall, than there would be in any other middle-aged Ghyllian rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot -- say the boardwalk of [[Iganefta-on-the-Sea]] for instance -- literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
 ''Is that all?  Can you really call this an Encyclopedia article? Humbug, I say! --Burgengute''

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	Interesting - so are we to infer that Daniel Mboya, certifiably and irrevocably dead, has now been seen wandering around as something not quite alive? And that he has a living child? --[[User:Morbus Iff\|Morbus Iff]] 09:50, 13 Jun 2005 (EDT)		Interesting - so are we to infer that Daniel Mboya, certifiably and irrevocably dead, has now been seen wandering around as something not quite alive? And that he has a living child? --[[User:Morbus Iff\|Morbus Iff]] 09:50, 13 Jun 2005 (EDT)
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		+	No, you nit, it's [[Gimlet]] who was the living child. The Editor of this Encyclopedia should be more up on the classics than ''that''. --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 23:25, 8 Jul 2005 (EDT)

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		+	Interesting - so are we to infer that Daniel Mboya, certifiably and irrevocably dead, has now been seen wandering around as something not quite alive? And that he has a living child? --[[User:Morbus Iff\|Morbus Iff]] 09:50, 13 Jun 2005 (EDT)

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 '''Daniel Mboya''' is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the [[rejah]], the clerk, the [[Folktown|Mayor]], and the chief mourner. [[Vemish]] signed it. And nobody has ever claimed that Vemish is ''verbally'' unreliable, for all he tends to botch anything ''physical'' he chooses to put his hand to.
-Young Daniel was as dead as a door-nail.
+Young Daniel is as dead as a door-nail.
-Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or [[Folktown|the City]]'s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Daniel was as dead as a door-nail.
+Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or [[Folktown|the City]]'s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Daniel is as dead as a door-nail.
-[[Vemish]] knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? V. and he were friends practically since their infancy. V. was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend (pretty much), and sole mourner (also pretty much). And even Vemish was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he solemnised the day of Daniel's funeral with the start of his second trip through the [[Azura Mines]]. The mention of the funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Daniel Mboya is dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that [[Gimlet]]'s father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own house wall, than there would be in any other middle-aged Ghyllian rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot -- say the boardwalk of [[Iganefta]]-on-the-Sea for instance -- literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
+[[Vemish]] knows he is dead? Of course he does. How could it be otherwise? V. and he were friends practically since their infancy. V. was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend (pretty much), and sole mourner (also pretty much). And even Vemish was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he solemnised the day of Daniel's funeral with the start of his second trip through the [[Azura Mines]]. The mention of the funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Daniel Mboya is dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that [[Gimlet]]'s father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own house wall, than there would be in any other middle-aged Ghyllian rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot -- say the boardwalk of [[Iganefta]]-on-the-Sea for instance -- literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
 ''Is that all?  Can you really call this an Encyclopedia article?  Humbug, I say!'' --Burgengute

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−	'''Daniel Mboya''' is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the [[rejah], the clerk, the [[Folktown\|Mayor]], and the chief mourner. [[Vemish]] signed it. And nobody has ever claimed that Vemish is ''verbally'' unreliable, for all he tends to botch anything ''physical'' he chooses to put his hand to.	+	'''Daniel Mboya''' is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the [[rejah]], the clerk, the [[Folktown\|Mayor]], and the chief mourner. [[Vemish]] signed it. And nobody has ever claimed that Vemish is ''verbally'' unreliable, for all he tends to botch anything ''physical'' he chooses to put his hand to.

	Young Daniel was as dead as a door-nail.		Young Daniel was as dead as a door-nail.