Symbols and Tropes
The Biplane
If you're going to own your own biplane, you may as well make it a yellow one. There's just something right and proper about flying around in a yellow biplane.It belongs to Denys, of course, and it...
The Pen and the Compass
After their first evening together—a pretty chaste affair with a chaperone and her being married and everything—Denys gives Karen the gift of a pen in exchange for the awesome story she told th...
Karen's Syphilis
Not every gift Karen gets is the happy kind. Bror foists a horrific case of syphilis on her, forcing her back to Denmark to deal with a therapy that sounds like something out of the Inquisition's p...