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The story starts with Jenny falling and title is of course a pune or play on words. I make no apologies.|Scott Sanford}} | The story starts with Jenny falling and title is of course a pune or play on words. I make no apologies.|Scott Sanford}} | ||
He added a [second piece] of commentary shortly after release, as a separate blog post: | |||
{{quotebox|So apparently I'm doing author's afterwords to my stories… | |||
I’m assuming here that Pratchett readers recognize [https://wiki.lspace.org/The_Desert this desert] and others will infer the situation from its context. | |||
…''the name Jenny Everywhere inscribed in the pictograms of the Agatean Empire''… Written as Jenny, all places, urinating dog. | |||
…''Jennie’s brown eyes meeting his stygian blue sockets.'' Stygian blue is an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color impossible colour], literally; it is one of the chimerical colors that cannot be shown on a screen or printed page, but can be seen by exploiting quirks of the human eye. Stygian blue may be seen by staring for a time at bright yellow, which leaves a dark blue afterimage, and then looking at black – the afterimage remains a dark blue but is also as dark as the black.|Scott Sanford}} | |||
===Read online=== | ===Read online=== | ||
The story is available on [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/45136.html the author's Dreamwidth website]. | The story is available on [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/45136.html the author's Dreamwidth website]. | ||
