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drydem1. Children are hard to get, valuable and almost invariably precocious
2. Husbands/fathers are almost constantly being called away to cushy positions in the celestial bureaucracy
3. Rich men named Kim are bastards
4. Rivers contain magnets to sink metallic boats
5. Monks are tricky
6. The reasonable decision between killing your daughter outright or digging a cave and leaving her to starve or freeze to death is the latter
7. The youngest child is always, always, always the coolest
8. all twins/triplets/septuplets are creepy psychics who speak with one voice
9. Be nice to mountains
10. combs are acceptable substitutes for birth certificates
2. Husbands/fathers are almost constantly being called away to cushy positions in the celestial bureaucracy
3. Rich men named Kim are bastards
4. Rivers contain magnets to sink metallic boats
5. Monks are tricky
6. The reasonable decision between killing your daughter outright or digging a cave and leaving her to starve or freeze to death is the latter
7. The youngest child is always, always, always the coolest
8. all twins/triplets/septuplets are creepy psychics who speak with one voice
9. Be nice to mountains
10. combs are acceptable substitutes for birth certificates
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Date: 2005-11-29 11:53 pm (UTC)... except for the magnets ...
...I still don't get that...
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Date: 2005-11-29 11:55 pm (UTC)I think the magnets have to do with the Japanese invasion of 1592, after which the story takes place, oddly enough.