( A bit of indolent privilege never hurt anyone.) Minor nobles rub shoulders with the black-gowned children of clergy, parliamentarians and lawyers in its peaceful quadrangles. ( I've always heard how standards are slipping in academia.)Ī place of indolent privilege. But it can be tiring, espousing the correct opinions all day. Students aren't forced to wear ridiculous gowns to breakfast. Students flaunt their tolerance and diversity friendships with devils are highly prized. ( Privilege? Bureaucracy? Indolence? In academia? Surely not.)Įager young radicals throng the halls. The college is sturdily buttressed inside and out stone arches support the weight of the Chapel roof, and complex bureaucratic mechanisms support the blissful indolence of the senior faculty. The demonic, the soulless, the radical, even the poor.Īt Summerset College, everything is cushioned by wealth and privilege. Omnes adsint, quamvis dementi, quamvis nefastiīenthic College is more given to innovation, and less to tradition, than Summerset. ( They do Valentine's differently, here.) A sizeable part of the population consume as much honey, wine, laudanum or all three as they can lay their hands on, and hide under blankets until it's all over.
#Sunless sea soulless windows#
Shop windows teem with adorable stuffed bats holding little stuffed hearts. Urchins sell bunches of paper violets for truly outrageous sums of money to forgetful spouses.
Besotted young women write riddling, anonymous messages on cards covered with painstaking découpage.
Smitten young men create elaborate treasure-hunts to guide their beloved to a gift of jewellery or crystallised fungus, all tied up with red ribbon. At the Feast of the Exceptional Rose there are masked balls, organised by Mr Wines itself, and seething with intrigue folk are more daring behind a mask, and some surprising intimacies occur. What do Fallen Londoners do on the Feast of the Exceptional Rose? Fallen Londoners are truly sentimental, and nothing delights them more than romance and secrecy. "Whose name's on your collar Mr Starveling Cat?" "Come closer, my dear, if you want to read that."Įvents Feast of the Exceptional Rose The Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! it likes your bones! it prefers your fat! The Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! steals from your pantry! blames it on a rat! The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! Sharp as ravenglass! Blunt as a bat! The Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! warm as a lizard! fragrant as a bat! The Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! stole your shoes! ate your cravat! The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! Why does it look at us like that? The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! Quick as a ratgun! Sharp as a gnat! The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! Sits on your chest when you're sleeping flat! The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! Jumped down the well for a good long chat! The Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! look what it did! to your nice new hat! The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! Wraps round your throat like a cheap cravat! The Sterveling Ket! The Sterveling Ket! What did it find in the oubliette? The Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! want to lose a hand? give the beast a pat! The Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! won't sit on a cushion! won't sit on a mat!
The Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! mangy as a goat! mad as a bat! The Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! it knows what we think! and we don't like that!
The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! Comes for the child who acts like a brat! The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! Swims like a bloodfish! Tastes like a sprat! The Starveling Cat! louder than a dog! taller than a rat! Starveling Kitty! Starveling Kitty! Ruled the roofs of five stolen cities!
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