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The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Read several years ago, maybe even of more interest currently...
Opening paragraph is what makes it of Hyperborean utility:
“...a city of scavengers. Just the names alone read now like some kind of exotic zoological catalogue: bone-pickers, rag-gathers, pure-finders, dredgermen, mud-larks, sewer-hunters, dustmen, night-soil men, bunters, toshers, shoremen...at least a hundred thousand strong.
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...before fatidic silver pools on a auspicious night stood a Hyperborean Xathoqquan priestess; stripping naked like a beast crawling in on all fours in supplication...
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Re: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Some of those terms are from Victorian thieves cant. Might be worth digging around a bit.
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Re: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
grodog wrote:
Some of those terms are from Victorian thieves cant. Might be worth digging around a bit.
Allan.
By me peddler's French, jus’may...
Cheers for the rabbit hole lead and good to hear from you, Allen!
...before fatidic silver pools on a auspicious night stood a Hyperborean Xathoqquan priestess; stripping naked like a beast crawling in on all fours in supplication...
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