Read the ad carefully; be doubtful of fabulous descriptions.
Pliny's "Natural History" includes descriptions of animals that are real and animals that are fabulous, but no descriptions of animals that are extinct.
The dry description of Fabulous Beasts, to quote from its own online press kit, "is a game of strategy and balance in which you build a tower of animals on your tabletop, then help them evolve in a connected digital world on iOS and Android tablets and smartphones".
"Being fabulous" is a good job description for Wolfe's new position as the producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival.
This thief is a fabulous woman named Briony, whose description begs for a Kinuko Craft painting: "She wore lace stockings under several skirts, an antique vest of peacock feathers over a shirt of simulated snakeskin, thigh-high boots, and a dark, hooded cape with many hidden pockets".
It is a pleasure we can't get in theatre; we can only hear and read descriptions of past fabulous performances.
More recent descriptions range from the fabulous to the immoderate.
It weaves elements of "Twin Peaks," "My So-Called Life" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" into something so fabulous that … well, doesn't that description alone make you want to play it?
Later, in Roman times, Pliny's Natural History includes descriptions of animals that are real, or fabulous, but none that are extinct.
His encounters with lions, baboons and many other species alien to the New World were a familiar and acceptable genre.His descriptions of the people he met on his travels were almost as fabulous.
Fabulous, fabulous parties.
