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"And I am very delightful."

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"And - thaney. Is there some tidy Thulic adjective form -"

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He laughs. "Yes, and it renders pretty straightforwardly into English - 'thaneish'."

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"Thaneish, good. Although perhaps I don't know enough to issue the compliment, since I don't speak the language."

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"You seem to have gotten the idea, but I suppose I could be wrong. What do you mean by it, then?"

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"Running around on - useful idiosyncratic errands ill-suited to institutional handling?"

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"Yes. Yes, that is exactly the thing."

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"I award myself ten points."

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"Congratulations."

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"Thank you!" He takes a little bow.

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"So far I feel extremely vindicated in my decision to send you an out-of-the-blue marriage proposal."

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"I'm kind of surprised that I didn't get any, like, 'let's get a coffee'. I guess there must be some very high threshold at which you send celebrities out-of-the-blue anything and at that point you go for broke?"

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"I considered opening with something a little less forward, and then I estimated how many marriage proposals I thought you were getting, and I figured that of the ways I could close my letter, 'marry me anyway' was the most informative about me. Most people probably aren't operating on quite the same logic."

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"You were very close. A little over, so far; they've slowed down but might hit a hundred."

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"What really gets me is that my joke about Elvis sorting your proposals turned out to be right."

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"He got a lot more than I did but Elves're too monogamous for 'haven't seen each other in thirty thousand years and have no real way of getting in touch or apparent desire to do so' to constitute common law divorce, so he's living vicariously."

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