professional bad example

i recently finished rereading jonathan strange & mr. norrell and liked it a lot better than i remembered. of course, the fact that the first time around i tore through the bulk of it (around 800 pages) over the course of two insomniac nights probably didn't help matters...

i'm still disappointed at how relatively small a role mr. segundus played, though. the fact he didn't sign the contract and was allowed to continue calling himself a magician and that he seemed to be somewhat sensitive to magic being done suggested some importance to me, but as is, the most important things he does is pose and look into the question why there is no more magic done in england and perform the healing spell involved in breaking lady pole's enchantmant. he doesn't really show up that often during the rest of the book. which is a shame. i tend to get oddly attached to secondary characters that don't actually appear very often.

bit of headcanon: jonathan strange seems to strangely resemble the raven king, which is odd because in the unlikely case that you should see them next to each other, they'd look nothing alike. (what does this mean? don't ask me. some stories just come to life and go off on their own tangents like that.)