Academic Exercises by K. J. Parker

Author:K. J. Parker [Parker, K. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: k. j. parker, short stories, epic fantasy, fantasy, deities
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Published: 2014-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

(I blinked three times when I read that. See my AUC 1744 lecture to the Fifth Ethical Congress, “Lambanus and the Relearned Memory Hypothesis”, in which I proved that the source for Lambanus’ theory was a deleted section from Saloninus. I was rather brilliant back then, before my brain got rusty. My sainted grandfather? Dear God.)

But then, Grandfather wasn’t writing for the record, was he? You can’t blame someone for chance remarks taken out of context. I need to remember that. Nobody else’s fault. Mine alone.

After all that, my hard work, my obsession, she got a decent but unremarkable lower second in Moderations and was certified for ancillary field work. I wasn’t having that. I went straight to Father Prior, who said it was out of his hands—he’s a coward—and referred me to Chapter. Fine. I raised a formal petition, argued the case at a full hearing, got her upgraded to an upper second and assigned to me as a research assistant. Naturally they asked me what my research was going to be. I told them, aspects of traumatic ability loss; which was partly true.

You must remember, I must remember, we must remember that I was deeply, wildly, passionately in love with—

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