The Bookshelf ~ June 2024

A MAP OF ST. CRISPIAN'S

DEAR READERS,

Do not jump ahead just yet!

Lol.

I have a little explanation to take care of.

Yes, I’ve just posted a map. This is not an Official Map authorized by the St. Crispian’s committee behind such a thing. This map represents the amateur attempts of the esteemed bachelor Plithco Wright.

When he created this map of the neighborhood in 1873, it was, in a word, controversial. You will hear more about that in this month’s St. Crispian’s Gazette, but there were two positives which came from his hobbyist efforts in cartography. I will share them now.

The first being that Geraldine Shocks—an unspoken and unfavored denizen of St. Crispian’s—was so offended that her house across from the church was paired in color with those from Traitors Road instead of the Diagonal, that—after years and years of pestering her fellows like a plague—she up and sold her house, moving to Bloomsbury, where she began to irritate every neighbor of her new address.

The second being that Plithco Wright took up…