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The story is also preceded by a quote from ''The High History of the Holy Graal'', translated by Sebastian Evans: | The story is also preceded by a quote from ''The High History of the Holy Graal'', translated by Sebastian Evans: | ||
{{quotebox|Josephus telleth us that the semblances of the islands changed themselves by reason of the divers adventures that by the pleasure of God befell therein… For, when they had entered into a forest or an island where they had found any adventure, and they came there another time, they found holds and castles and adventures of another kind, so that their toils and travails might not weary them, and also for that God would that the land should be conformed to the New Law.|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel){{!}}“The High History of the Holy Graal”}} | {{quotebox|Josephus telleth us that the semblances of the islands changed themselves by reason of the divers adventures that by the pleasure of God befell therein… For, when they had entered into a forest or an island where they had found any adventure, and they came there another time, they found holds and castles and adventures of another kind, so that their toils and travails might not weary them, and also for that God would that the land should be conformed to the New Law.|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel){{!}}“The High History of the Holy Graal”}} | ||
It contains a number of cultural references and allusions. For example, the transphobic British billionaire-writer against whom [[Glendalf]] bears a grudge is transparently a satirical depiction of J.K. Rowling, while Glendalf himself and his twelve Orcs knocking at Jenny's doors are reminiscent of J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf and his company of Dwarves at the beginning of ''The Hobbit''. | It contains a number of cultural references and allusions. For example, the transphobic British billionaire-writer against whom [[Glendalf]] bears a grudge is transparently a satirical depiction of J.K. Rowling, while Glendalf himself and his twelve Orcs knocking at Jenny's doors are reminiscent of J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf and his company of Dwarves at the beginning of ''The Hobbit''. | ||
Additionally, the title is a pun on ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtight_Garage The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius]'', or more specifically on its original French title (''Le Garage Hermétique de Jerry Cornelius''), playing on the fact that the French term “hermétique” (which actually, at least in this context, translates as “''airtight''”) resembles the English alchemical term “hermetic”. | |||
===Read online=== | ===Read online=== | ||
The story is [https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/tagged/tghje available] on Tumblr. | The story is [https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/tagged/tghje available] on Tumblr. | ||
