A lengthy analysis of the first sentence of Tamsyn Muir's "Gideon the Ninth"

A thread about the extraordinary first sentence of @tazmuir's Gideon the Ninth, and, in particular, how much work the phrase "dirty magazines" is doing.

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— Benjamin Rosenbaum (@ben_rosenbaum) November 19, 2020

The book begins: "In the myriadic year of our Lord--the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly prince of Death!--Gideon Nav packed up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth."

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— Benjamin Rosenbaum (@ben_rosenbaum) November 19, 2020

The rest of the thread.