Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

"Isabel is granted the opportunity to do whatever she wants with her life, thanks to her cousin Ralph Touchett, who organises for her a small fortune in inheritance from his dying Father. He does this from a desire to see her fulfill her true potential, because it amuses him. He is portrayed as loving her but from a safe distance. Economically, Isabel is male, not female, making her squandering of her fate all the more tragic. She is allowed to marry someone poor, who ruins her, thanks to the whim of her cousin who made her rich." Solomon Wakeling

"Alexander had wandered away from the other children in search of the Fruits of Office. He supposed that the most likely way of satisfying what had by now become an almost insatiable craving was to find where the Queen lived. He had a notion that he would find her house in the electorate of Bennelong and had walked and walked and walked." From Chapter VI of the Chronicles of Nadir, as told from the grave by Tom Lewis.