Swearing this time around.

This book, as you may have guessed, is in head-eating mode. I've had plenty of other things to think about but haven't really wanted to talk about them much here. So you get book babbling. Lucky you.

One of the things that's different here is that so far as I can tell, this world is entirely atheistic. There's a lot of math and magic and metaphysics, but no one has so far decided that any personal deities are attached to that stuff. (The math -- don't worry -- is implicit, not explicit. This fantasy novel does not come with equations.) (Metaphysics ditto.) So the obvious stuff to figure out is who does which social functions of religion and how and why, and most of that came to mind fairly quickly, and hurrah.

What is much less intuitive is the swearing, and yet it keeps coming up. ( a great deal more about the swearing, with actual swear-words employed by example )