Aether Salonista

Overheard at the Aether Salon:

* ‘Now then, I suppose you are all thinking "Why, oh why, is my life plagued with Doctor Obolensky, that horrible villain and stylish man about town?” Well, the answer is rather simple. You lead boring, ordinary lives. And yet, you lack the drive, the vision, and the ability, to crush your neighbors with giant mechanical lobsters. So of course, someone has to do it for you, or you'd all end up with nothing to talk about.’ - Doctor Obolensky, Villains!


* ‘Silver is also one of our most profound weaknesses. My earrings are platinum before anybody asks. The metal itself will burn our skin if we touch it, which makes using a decent tea service a bit of a pain sometimes.’ - Augustus Dayafter, Howl!


* ‘I was pondering on the nature of what a "weapon" actually is and really, the conclusion that I came to was that, at base, it is in fact a communications device. And not merely in the usual "only language they understand" sort of way. The underlying nature of a "weapon" is to communicate certain information...’ - Ordinal Malaprop, Weapons!


* 'Sounds like any Friday night so far, drunken urchins eating dodgy meat.' - Beq Janus, Curses!