skygiants

oh yeah housefires really an essential ingredient in this particular variant of the Gothic cocktail, huh ....

ohhh I should have picked up on the Judith and Holofernes thing and I absolutely didn't! You're right that he was written very charmingly, though, which I think is one of the most interesting things about the book but also one of the things that sort of makes it a tightrope-walk to land ...