Birds and Snakes (short story): Difference between revisions

{{quotebox|I thought it was about time someone else did something with [[Lord Grallyx]]; if nobody but [[Lupan Evezan]] ever used the character in a story, he would fade away and be forgotten.<br /><br />Probably unnecessary context notes: “[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFV46hn6_Rw Slough]” rhymes with “plow” not “snow” or “cough.” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debrett%27s Debrett’s Peerage] has been the default spotter’s guide to the British upper classes for centuries. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey Ordnance Survey] maps are from the national mapping agency for Great Britain; coincidentally, both Jenny’s home in Soho and the industrial estates of Slough appear on Sheet 160 of the then-current 7th Series. Americans can read “Scotch tape” where Jenny says “Sellotape.”<br /><br />"Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough / It isn't fit for humans now / There isn't grass to graze a cow." - opening to the poem ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough_(poem) Slough]'' by John Betjeman, written in protest of the Slough Trading Estate.|Scott Sanford}}