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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 09:14:25 JST Charlie Stross

   So I am not writing this novel, but I have to share the opening with the entire world, because … well, it starts:

   "The escape room was full of skeletons."

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     zip (zip@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 09:36:05 JST zip

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     @cstross technically true of all escape rooms

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     SpeakerToManagers (speakertomanagers@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 12:11:13 JST SpeakerToManagers

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     @cstross
     This _does_ sound like a good opening for a Persephone Hazard story.

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     robelix (robelix@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 22:04:31 JST robelix

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     @cstross

     Welcome to the Escape Room Hallstatt
     https://www.hallstatt.net/about-hallstatt/sehenswertes-en-US/catholic-church-of-hallstatt/bone-house-of-hallstatt/

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 22:57:21 JST Charlie Stross

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     • thattommyhall

     @thattommyhall Nope (never read Borges)

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     thattommyhall (thattommyhall@functional.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 22:57:22 JST thattommyhall

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     @cstross did you ever read "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain"? One of my favourite Borges pieces, compresses lots of book ideas into a survey of a fake author, made me think of it as it mentions one novel being only understood properly when the last line is read