Wow. That really gets inside the character's head.
The somebody elses penguin line also caught me like a fist to the funnybone, but I nearly wet myself at
"I AM HISTORIMANDIAS, TEACHER OF KINGS," he howled, "LOOK UPON MY HOMEWORK, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!"
I love classical references in humour; they are tough to pull off well, fly past a lot of readers, but are so worth the effort.
(The greatest of these is the 'Give the Oedipus' sequence in History of the World - perhaps the greatest single merging of high and low humour in a comedic scene.)
I don't know if I can fit Space Mage into the current story, but I would certainly like to use her in other ones.
The somebody elses penguin line also caught me like a fist to the funnybone, but I nearly wet myself at
"I AM HISTORIMANDIAS, TEACHER OF KINGS," he howled, "LOOK UPON MY HOMEWORK, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!"
I love classical references in humour; they are tough to pull off well, fly past a lot of readers, but are so worth the effort.
(The greatest of these is the 'Give the Oedipus' sequence in History of the World - perhaps the greatest single merging of high and low humour in a comedic scene.)
I don't know if I can fit Space Mage into the current story, but I would certainly like to use her in other ones.