Uther Pendragon: Blog

A biography of Beau Brummell suggested that a pound was about $100 of current American purchasing power.

Picketeny suggests that 1000 pounds a year or a little less was considered necessary for a "Comfortable" life of the gentry. That is consistent.

We should have 3 cautions on that comparison, though.

1) Not the wild splurges of the Prince Regent could buy him a cell-phone -- nor a sewing machine or a flush toilet, for that matter.

2) Some of the things which are/were available in both times have different relative values in the two periods. Aluminum and silver were of comparable worth back then.

3) The cost of services in goods was much lower back then. Wesley paid his traveling preachers 12 pounds a year _plus expenses_.

If we take that $100 value for a pound, that would mean that a shilling was worth about $5, a penny about 40 cents, and s farthing about a dime.

Okay, purists.

Technically, "Xylem" means the woody part of a plant, and he isn't a plant.

OTOH, somebody write an all-dialogue story with a title which fits it better starting with the letter X. Then, I'll listen.

I've been posting stories I had on ASSTR but not here on SOL.

A few readers have noticed typos. I read the stories carefully, but I make errors. The point that shocks me is that these stories were up on ASSTR for years and posted at least once on ASSM.

I didn't hear from anybody there.

Anyway, if you see something, say something -- preferably in an e-mail.

Back when I was posting anew -- and usually short -- story every Thursday, one January my offerings were:
Right,
Rite,
Wright,
and Write.

For some reason, Wright was the only one I put on SOL.

Now, I'm transferring almost all my stories here. I got all 4 up. They aren't related except for the sounds of their titles.

Write is sort of an erotic love letter. Each paragraph is a different tense or combination of tense and mode.

I don't write stroke. On the other hand, I have a story which is 2,181 words long. Of those, 1,968 go from when foreplay is already established until his orgasm is described.

That's 90% of the words.

How many stroke stories on the site have 90%, even 50%, of the words actually describing the sex act?

The point is that a couple can reveal sides of their personalities during a sex act as much as at any other time.

It's called _Turnabout is Fair Play_.