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strangelyrouge (1045 words)
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Char's Words, by Char
Aeonn's Words, by Aeonn
Reading Reading, by yarb
slovenščina, by rolig
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Thanks, yarb! Wish I'd known that all along. I wonder what other html works that John hasn't told us about?
Sionnach, I think you mispronounced that.
Did someone say "Hwaet!"?
I used non-breaking spaces, mollusque - an ampersand followed by "nbsp" - make sure you add a real space after your string of non-breaking spaces (i.e. before the text). I think I used four or five for each gap here.
Yarb, how'd you get the extra spaces in there?
In Slovene, the adjective sod means "even, divisible by two": soda števila "even numbers".
Hwaet! When he went, as hordes will one day,
this provincial sod, who some say poeticised,
was missed by a wife, a mother and one
or two other women - no workmates spilt tears.
- Peter Reading, Remaindered, from Fiction, 1979
Citation on nympho.