Thank you!

[ what a compliment!!! gu yun grins, deeply pleased. ] A mastery of the literary does require a sense of humor, doesn't it? Besides, I find that churchyards often remind me of donkeys. Monks and their ilk have a special sort of braying that it was on my mind.

[ that's terrible ] I'd thought having him run naked in the square would've been equally funny, so I had to up the ante a bit. Congratulations on your, ah, cursed book.