December 7th, 2018
7 Dec 2018 · page 857 of 1306
Stealthy!
Cast: Eliza Swift, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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I don't like Will much so far; he's too flippant about his very messy situation.
Vincent and Eliza? I love those two to bits. ^_^
Will, you should probably behave yourself around someone who owns a gun.
making...very bad life choices
Let he (or she) who is without sin cast the first stone.
That should be "Let him (or her) who is without sin cast the first stone." The sentence is in the imperative form, and the phrase which follows the verb should be in the accusative case.
(Why, yes, this was a very bad life choice.)
I plead guilty to rubbish grammar and would like a further 1,518 offences to be taken into consideration. Also, I plead guilty of mangling the quotation : "He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her."
Actually, I do not see the point of trying to get Bible quotes word perfect in English. As long as the meaning is correct I feel like it is good enough. After all, the original text was written before English existed and given the differences even between closely related languages very few foreign language quotes could reasonably have a single perfect English translation. And the original for his would have been Greek (the educated language of the ancient world) or Aramaic (the local language of the people who knew Jesus in life, many f whom were not educated), and neither of those languages is particularly closely related to English which makes precise translations more difficult.
It's not that simple. The Greek in Matthew, Mark, and John is quite debased, being the trade Greek used throughout the Empire at that time. As such, it's probably easier to translate accurately into English than, say, Luke or Acts, both of which were written by someone who had been given exceptional tutelage.
More than that, though, there's no question that Sturzkampf's rendition of the verse from John is the standard translation, extta pronouns and all. However, seeing as how I made no pretense of quoting his Gospel, I weasel out of the situation by merely pointing out that I wasn't talking about that source.
Somebody paste a fedora onto Will saying "Ma'am," ASAP
I see Eliza is living up to her surname...
Sharpe is checking his appearance from his reflection in the glass cabinets isn't he?
I swear, it's like he's the offspring of Pride and Lust stuffed into a flesh suit and given access to a University!
Lide?
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Checks out. Lide it is! :P
I prefer Pust myself. More sleazy.
In fact, quite a common creature in the halls of Academia.
I get the feeling someone’s already done some ‘crimes against magic’ on him, and perhaps having him hanged is a convenient way to dispose of the evidence before anyone figures it out....
In a minute he'll be trying it in Eliza's eyes.
You know Sharpe, if I were in Eliza's position, I think I would stick with "your criminal" despite your preferences.
Oh, Knotty? I think Eliza has officially reached the "If you do not tell your father I will" point. And if she talks to your father it will probably sound something like "Mr. Knott, your son is unsuited to a life in the family business, but he is too chicken livered to tell you himself. You have to let him go through, because this business of him bringing his clients to me so I can help prove that they do not deserve to be executed HAS to stop."
This is the first time they've seen each other in years, the other exonerations were all Vincent.
I understand that, but do you really think it takes more than one instance to reach the point of "this business of him bringing his clients to me so I can help prove that they do not deserve to be executed HAS to stop."?
Ye Gods! There's almost no room left in Eliza's shoppe, what with her, Vincent, Parsley...plus Sharpe and his EGO!
Like an ideal gas, Sharpe's ego expands to fill the space in which it finds itself.
It’s choranaptyxic, like an occamy!!
Now you're just making up words.
Sorry, but J. K. Rowling made up both of those words. In the Harry Potter world choranaptyxis is the magical ability of growing or shrinking to fit the available space and occamies are creatures that are known to be choranaptyxic.
Oh no, I found a pedant. Where are my garlic and Demonstrative Pronouns? ;)
What, you mean THESE? ;)
Is an occamy another name for a common housecat?
not a bad reason to lock him up, when you think about it
I see the two ladies from the meeting are holding hands as they leave. : )
Also, I wonder why Eliza always puts an emphasis on Charles's name. It reminds me of how Vee put quotes around Sidney's name when she first started calling him by it.
Yay cute couples!
EDIT: I believe the darker-skinned woman was the one furiously taking notes during Eliza's demonstration. Fellow Fourth Anchor Truther? Journalist? Wizard?
Regardless of whether it means anything in this instance... In that era, people held hands and walked arm-in-arm with their friends, men as well as women. I am told it is still standard practice in Europe. Only America has gone weird about it, and I write as an American.
they're gay
Thanks. Glad to have that clear.
Also, at that time in Europe, you could be gay in the "high" society. As long as you had a marriage outside of it and it wouldn't be too openly visible - holding hands being acceptable. For women especially as it would count as some "high school friendship thing". There was a very know couple in Paris that let as heir a reknown concert place, where both were gay and that was really not a secret. You can read Proust for further indications of this kind, but also Brantôme in the 16th told us aristocracy was as well relieved from any religious or political coherence.
Eliza, you just tried to demonstrate a simple observation about geography using a fragile globe and a gun. I don't think you're in the best position to judge Vincent's life choices here.
Um, Eliza is not in danger of going to jail for breaking a globe that she owns while Knotty is in serious danger of going to jail for helping Sharpe to escape (which is what he would be charged with if he was caught). So as far as bad life choices go, I think Vincent's are worse than Eliza's.
Eh, it was just a silly joke.
Okay, so... Vincent did opt to wait, despite the tight time limit. Probably wise of him! The four witnesses are gone. That makes me all the more impressed that Kate gave each of them such vivid, distinct personalities, even though they were not going to be characters in the story!
Panel 4 is priceless! <3 <3 <3
OMG she's so expressive, I love her
I am at work and trying not to cackle. ^_^
"Swift, Knott Sharpe" is probably going to be the best description of this trio's decision-making processes throughout this particular arc, isn't it...
What happens if you get Will, Verity, and Tilde all in a room together?
All those big egos.. that sounds explosive. I hope I mean that figuratively...
She got ma'am'ed!
Sorry. Trans girl moment there. :)