political poker

The Call of Cthulhu

H.P. Lovecraft

aging

playing

games

knowing

life

The Lion in Winter

James Goldman

King Henry II

dowry

arrangement

regret

“I was thirty-five and I’d thought I was playing political poker and it turned out I’d been playing in some other game I didn’t even know about. ”

“Your little brother Philip is the King of France now and he wants your wedding dowry back. I only took you for your dowry. You were seven. [...] The Vexin is a little county but it’s vital to me.”

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