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The Temptations of the Bix the End Table, and other tales

Dust Jacket Notes

After the devastation of the Hierarch Wars, the world of Battal, a brief period of peace is believe to ensue; but what really goes on? Aside from the main legends and myths of the Elemenstors you've come to know and love, there were other things taking place in the world. Did you know, for instance, of the Fabulous Feast of Gluttony, or the Great Cave Orgy of the Khith? Did you know about Dogus Brankorking's journeys into the Nastier Planes after a party? These events and many more tales await in this fabulous companion to Tycho Brahe's Elemenstor Cycle which, with appendixes, runs to nearly 1300 pages in length.

Table of Contents

• The First Temptation of Bix the End Table
• Simon the Severe
• The Wenching Hour
• The Second Temptation of the the Bix the End Table
• The Thing that did not Tempt Bix the End Table
• An Interlude on the Consistency of my Vomit
• No Really, I Don't Remember Eating That
• The Third through Tenth Temptations of Bix the End Table
• People To Kill Quickly
• And Slowly
• The Story That Is Built One Sentence At a Time By Those That Read It
• What the Quilp?
• Fifteen Recipes for Valium Martinis

• Appendix A: The Rise and Fall of Minuschitae

Comments

This book was released by Mr. Tycho Brahe in his later years when his royalties were no longer keeping him in the moderate lavishness and semi-affluence to which his Elemenstor Cycle had previously afforded him. It is believed to have been largely written during a savage, ten year drinking and pill binge. This is evident in the strange, almost psychedelic nature of the characters, settings and situations throughout this series of short stories and poems. Some poems do not appear to be poems of the Elemenstors at all, but rather grocery lists and the order in which the author felt each of his enemies should die. There is also a list of people to kill which does not match any of the mythos, nor the previous list of which order his enemies should die in. It appears to be, rather, a completely seperate set of enemies or annoyances all together; the most interesting name on this list being Gabe. Those stories which do have a clear connection to the ELotH:TES universe appear to be largely a collection of previously unpublishable manuscripts simply mashed together with a complete lack of editorial diligence

Also of some note is the apparent extra "the" in the title of the collection which is not reproduced in any of the story titles, although the Second Temptation appears to have two extra "the"s. Some fans have suggested that perhaps Bix the End Table, the Bix the End Table and the the Bix the End Table are in fact three distinct characters, although there is nothing in the text which indicates this. Also known as The Temptations of the Furniliar, and other tales.