A toast to Dorothy: a cheerful group around a table raises the glasses!

The group on their way into the castle of Darmstadt, walking across the court towards the entrance with the belltower.

A view into an inner courtyard with cobblestone paving bordered by a fieldstone wall.

A group photo in front of a historical carriage from the 19th century. The carriage is located in the entrance area of ​​the castle museum in Darmstadt.

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The German speaking Dunnett readers met last weekend in Darmstadt for the International Dunnett Day.

A cheerful get-together in the afternoon and evening and a visit to the castle museum the following day were on the program.

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The only thing good about my current debilitating cold is lots of reading time.

I’m really disliking Thorfinn. He’s a jerk.

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Bastinado, I assume. Ow.

Oh that is beautiful! Thank you!🫶🏻💕
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I just finished chapter 24. Everything is just very sad and I am sad.

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I see all manner of evidence that my theory of the G and S case is correct (threats to H) but I assume I am being faked out and my heart will be on a pike soon enough.

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I think I will have to go back into hell sooner this time. I will not be able to wait my usual few weeks. It’s probably good that I don’t have the next one with me right now.

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All Loppe’s pretty chickens and their dam….. and Loppe …

😢😭😢😭😭

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I have finished scales of gold.

I am not sure I am capable of articulating how much I hate all of you.

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Murder and mayhem! The crew has been attacked!

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Ahhh! Peril with Doria people in the jungle! Date pits are important weapons!

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Thank you!

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Archie!!!!!!
What happened to Hughie?

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S as backer of D has been revealed.

I worry a little that I’m looking for archetypes - we have a P in the role of C running off east (although P is of course rather smarter) and we have a Güzel type now - but the differences are still manifest. Notable that N actually has friends

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N and I are agreed that D actually marrying C is the most ominous bit.

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The ship is burning! N has recognized the littlest idiot, C, in the crowd!

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Catherine! Really! I know how stupid I was at that age but REALLY!

N has just had the quiet stand-off with Doria and Catherine has watched him pass.

Photo source, Wikipedia: A cannon from the 15th century. The photo shows the broken ring of the Mons Meg. The cannon consists of a long, black iron tube that is surrounded by several wide, forged rings. One of the rings is broken. The forged iron rods from which the cannon was assembled can be seen where the ring broke.

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Ah, the cannon, one of my favorites!
Until the end of the 15th century, cannons were forged, not cast: iron rods were joined together by solid rings to form a cannon.
This picture of Mons Meg, shows a broken ring and below it the forged iron rods.

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Come on! What‘s drugs and dancing and feasts compared with reading #dunnett?

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Finished N.

So let me get this straight:
Hero 1 (LC): behaves like a sociopath because he is trying to hide his wounded gooey center.
Hero 2 (N): gooey, sweet exterior, may be a sociopath.

Why couldn’t I have joined a fun cult with drugs and dancing and feasts?

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Felix?

Totally lighthearted, just a romp.

😡

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I did not have marrying Madame de Charetty on my bingo card, although it makes sense for sociopolitical reasons. Still.

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Taking refuge in Niccolò.

Line figure shrugging: text says “I was initially planning on being a casual fan but then I thought why not just let it consume my soul instead”

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Got my first Whispering Gallery and started paging through and then realized it might contain spoilers and now am holding it at arm’s length with tongs. I gotta get through these books, this is killing me.

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Tommaso Portinari of the Portinari Altarpiece is making an appearance!

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A well known historical person for
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So Claes, the big galoot, is Niccolò?

I’m not there yet people. It’s just funny.