Better Cities:The Lusted Argonian Maid, Foreword

Book Information The Lusted Argonian Maid, Foreword
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The Lusted Argonian Maid, Foreword

by Crassius Curio

The uncensored original version of The Lusty Argonian Maid

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ntroduction by Plitinus Mero, author of The Real Barenziah

It is with great pleasure that I take my quill to write some introductory words as my friend Curio has asked me.

We are both very controversial authors. My masterpiece has often been censored, and the watered-down Biography of Barenziah is better known than my own work. But it is the way of the world, for I have vexed some powerful people. Crassius, on the other hand, barely mentions a few existing people in his play. Yet, nobody wished to see it on stage. With good reason, for it is the best satire on Vivec society that I have read in decades. Everybody is mocked in this play, from Berel Sala the greedy to the cowardly Twin Lamps, from Imperials to Dunmer.

But the play has been forbidden, and ever since, everything has been done to make its author look like a pervert. The title has been changed: from The Lusted Argonian Maid, it has evolved into The Lusty Argonian Maid. Moreover, only a part of one scene is publicly displayed, and it is so out of context that it cannot be properly understood.

I could carry on like this for a long while, but you have better to do than to read my angry lines. Please, this I beg of you: give this play a try. You will not be disappointed.