Oceans of Light - Misc

Misc from Hugh Cook's Oceans of Light.



Category: Misc

Ak Cherish Five Virtues Firecracker - A firecracker, since the matches exist. Atlanta lit all three candles - lit them with a box of Ak Cherish Five Virtues Firecracker matches imported from Barth Banchup Bakchakris, the kind which...

Ak Cherish Five Virtues Firecracker Matches - Matches. Gorkindachina found some paper, some kindling and a box of Ak Cherish Five Virtues Firecracker Matches. He lit the wood stove and boiled up some rice, a big heap of imported chestnuts and...

Big Man Hench - Character from one of Atlanta's comics. Then she closed the kitchen door with her foot, rather harder than was necessary, and retired to her bedroom. There she ate and she ate and she ate, and...

Blood Slather - A comic book. Gorkindachina entered, closing the door behind him, and found Atlanta sitting with her feet up on her law desk. She was reading a comic book called 'Blood Slather', the lurid cover of...

Book Of Balls - A success book read by Atlanta. Atlanta had read all the usual success books ('The Self-Serving Self', 'Taking Care of Number One', 'The Center of the Universe', 'Let the Dead Bury the Dead',...

Book Of Broccoli - A book about Broccoli with a foreword written by Heineman. By now, the members of this Association were all staunch supporters of their president. Heineman's job that day was to make a speech to...

Book Of Brutality - A book with five thousand acts written by Maki Desadi. The language of the document was plain enough, and Atlanta, though initially astonished, soon realized why Soba had signed it. If it was assumed...

Book Of Ego - A book quoted by Atlanta. Atlanta, quoting from the Book of Ego. 'I do. I choose, and will not be chosen for.' [WoH Ch17]

Center Of The Universe - Success book read by Atlanta. Atlanta had read all the usual success books ('The Self-Serving Self', 'Taking Care of Number One', 'The Center of the Universe', 'Let the Dead Bury the Dead', 'Tutoring...

Chalakanesian Gazette - A government legal magazine. Unless Atlanta was reading things wrongly, the sea was now no longer the sea unless a Legal Survey map said it was the sea. Only half the maps were finished, which meant...

Chalakanesian Legal Survey - As Atlanta read the Ecology Act, is seemed that the 'sea' was now to be defined as that area demarcated as 'sea' on the maps of the Chalakanesian Legal Survey. This was a new set of maps which was...

Champion Sea Circus - A circus run by Heineman's uncle Ilo Inca Ma Macromius Jubiladilia in Idosolaris. At the end of the series Heineman runs away here for safety from his sister Atlanta. The photos were of Ilo Inca Ma...

Cigarettes - Cigarettes are illegal in Chalakanesia, upon punishment of death. Atlanta smokes cigarettes. 'Cigarettes,' said Nodo. 'You want economic aid from Heaven and Hell, yet you're still opposed to...

Clapton Synergiser - An image stabilizer. One did ghost, producing a semi-substantial doppelganger. Suddenly there were two of the same person, one real and one not. Each was as surprised as the other. There was an...

Cockfighting Times - Newspaper in Islam Demaxus This occasioned a fresh outcry, and the senators started to pelt him with agendas, wastepaper baskets and out-of-date copies of the Cockfighting Times. 'Impeach Heineman!'...

Coins Of Chalakanesia - A book. This was his own little world, where he controlled all the variables. Here he had his abacus, his ledgers, his black-bound Book of Bad Debts, his files of correspondence, his copy of 'Coins...

Contract Of Destiny - A legal contract Then she took Soba's Contract of Destiny and scanned it rapidly. It was, in effect, an agreement in which Glan Gleneth Soba Lubamacasta consented to be the bound concubine of Yulius...

Court Of Conference - An international Court. But, as Atlanta knew very well, Chalakanesia was negotiating with Heaven and Hell on the text of a proposed International Justice Treaty. This would enshrine a number of human...

gillslits - Mer gill openings. As Atlanta stood there - some moments longer than she absolutely had to - it was easy to see the faint lines of potential which would open in the water to become gillslits, and...

International Justice Treaty - In the city of Lexis, there was only one court, this being the Court of Justice. That one single court heard and decided all the law cases of the island of Islam Demaxus. One could appeal the rulings...

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