Lost in a Good Book

22

‘Not yet—none of the names appears in the Register of Fictioneers. I’m just going through the reams of unpublished characters from the Well of Lost Plots—it might take some time.’

23

‘I hope I’m mistaken but you’ve got the Questing Beast approaching from the south-east—a hundred yards and closing.’

24

‘He’s in Middlemarch at the moment. I’ll try him on the Footnoterphone—but you know how deaf he is.’

25

‘He’s not answering. Do you know, this reminds me of the time the Demogorgon met Medusa in the 1923 “Miss Loathsome” competition—’

26

‘Coming up!’

27

‘Any second now, Tweedy.’