Thog's Masterclass

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Thog's Masterclass. Dept of Purpureal Prose. 'The glassy scaurs and grim ramparts of Mount Voormithadreth, highest and most formidable of the Eiglophians, had beetled above them, wedging the sun with dark scoriac peaks at mid-afternoon, and walling the blazonries of sunset wholly from view.' (Clark Ashton Smith, 'The Seven Geases', 1934) [LP]

Literally Dept. 'In loyalty to his lord, he had literally kept his eyes shut for seventeen years.' (Randall Garrett, 'The Eyes Have It', January 1964 Analog)

• 'Every trick of sexual technique he had ever learned, every last ounce of his masculinity was being literally pumped into me like a transfusion of blood.' ('Petra Christian', Hitch-Hiker, 1971) [BA]

Dept of Truly Alien Aliens. 'I suppose you might liken us to huge steaming lumps of purple jelly, anchored to metallic plates which are embedded within rubberized constructions of great architectural beauty.... And we emit a soft, musical blurping sound for the purposes of communication.' (Alexander Thynn, The King is Dead, 1976)

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