Tablet
Artefact
Also appears as: tablet
Slime’s jealously guarded screen, contemplated bulbous-eyed and back-to-wall. Its contents are sufficiently Nabokovian to make privacy a plot device.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
- The Senseless Counterfeit chapters:
From the books (2 passages)
Now the Poncemaker General carried his tablet with him wherever he went, and seeing as wherever he went included breakfast at home with his darling Mummy and … er … Daddy too of course, thither upon this morning the Poncemaker General had carried his tablet. His darling Mummy, favouring the fruit of her loins with a sideways glance or two, observed the unprecedented corrugation of the filial brow and the…
He has a little tablet, which sometimes