“As part of my current charge I have been instructed to provide an occasional journal of my recent activities.
I avoid the term blog, since coincidentally this word is also the name of a repulsive sub-caste of foliots, characterised by ooze, fleshy folds and gills of blue-grey gristle. Think slugs, but with worse personalities.”

— Jonathan Stroud

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