It's the seaside town in winter, the walled garden, the crazily stacked apartment blocks, the occultist's tower, the cursed book, the aesthete's hidden island lost among the fens that remain.
Shortly after their initiation, unrest rises in the countryside as a figure calling herself the "Black Samurai" distributes cursed books written to spread "knowledge and wisdom": some residents of Mikado, including Issachar, are turned into demons after reading the books at gatherings called "Sabbaths".
If I could say every curse word in the book I would......well I am.
So the great advantage of e-books is also their curse; e-books will be the only game in town if you want to read a book.
WHITE CAT The Curse Workers, Book One.
In March 2005, Houghton Mifflin Company published Reversing the Curse, a book by Shaughnessy, author of the bestselling The Curse of the Bambino, chronicling the 2004 Red Sox season.
I found myself cursing this book about halfway through its 602 pages; it felt like a concrete block tied to my ankle.
The collection includes material as varied as curses against book thieves, early love ballads, hearty drinking songs and a hand-drawn ground plan for a medieval monastery, drafted around A.D. 820, the only such document of its kind.
The Cursed Child book, however, has broken sales records for play scripts, with more than 680,000 going in the first three days in the UK, and more than 2m in 48 hours in the US.
But given the way the world is these days — the American President trolling Kim Jong-un with tweets that read as if they were composed by Kim Jong-un, while declining for days to condemn white supremacists after they marched in the streets of Charlottesville — one can be untroubled by the prevalence of cursing in books or elsewhere, and still be of the opinion that we're all pretty much fucked.
