All is pleasure, joy, and bliss,

"U-uni. To study." Perhaps that putrid port city now boasts libraries and colleges. Esca thinks of how many things have changed in the world since he was six, and cannot begin to imagine all the changes that have likely happened with so many more years added on. He finds the questions that grasp his interest most-- did we defeat the Romans? Do the dark people still live on beyond the wall?-- he does not want to ask, for fear of receiving an answer he cannot stand. "I have never been to Londiniu- London. But I am Esca Mac Cunoval." She did not give her entire name, of course, but not all women do.