Can I appeal?" "Oh yes." "Will it do any good?" "None whatsoever. - Tanith Lee

The plague came to be called Yellow Mantle. Men must name everything, as if, by giving it a name, they will decrease the nameless horror they experience.

But among the aristocrats whose existence could be lengthily prolonged into three or four hundred spans, boredom came to be the killer, a bizarre running down, a sort of decline and decay, nonphysical but fatal.

I have a plan," said Xaros, "improbable only in its genius.