And the Tree that had withered shall be renewed and then trimmed in the Baroque style to look like a Morgoulian water-nymph,
and the building of Barade-du-comte shall create jobs and stimulate the economy,
and the Île-de-la-Cité shall be blessed with art-nouveau Métro stations, and Microsofte will stop having stupid defaults and shall cease to thinken that it knoweth better than the author and will do what the blazes I tell it to do.
Sing all ye people!
The Great Powers of Terre-moyenne surrendered to the Count in a meeting between himself and the Ériadorian diplomatic corps. "These are the terms," said Monte Fato, and he smiled charmingly as he eyed them one by one, laughing indulgently at their badly overdone classic black. "The Aragonnists and their deluded allies shall withdraw from political affairs, but will be allowed a pension and a quota of mistresses, first taking oaths never to assault the Great Count openly or in secret. All lands south of Lottaloria and the Nimrodello shall be Monte Fato's for ever, solely. North of Lottaloria as far as the teahouses of Forode shall be tributary to Monte Fato, and its inhabitants shall have leave to carry on their own affairs, whether adulterous or otherwise. But they shall help to build Barade-du-comte and thus undo their wanton destruction of taste through the disgustingly pompous Aragonnist rubbish they have inflicted upon the world, and they shall be under the lieutenancy of Meurtrier Morrie and Valartine the White, who shall teach them proper aesthetics and social mores."
