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10 - 21, 23, 26 - 29, 32, 33, 37 | January looks at you pointedly and says that there are other people she would much sooner get rid of.
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22 | January notes that she considers this board member a valuable ally.
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24 | She says, with a faintly self-mocking expression, that as unlikely as it might seem, she believes September is much too valuable to the board to let go.
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31 | "He is less of an impediment than some people who might be on the board," she says. This is not a compliment to the Wry Functionary, but she is still inclined to spare him.
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35 | January considers for a moment. "She is not sympathetic, but she is predictable," she says. "Which means that she can be used. I vote against excising her. Any replacements might be less easily controlled."
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100 | January tilts her head and considers the plans dispassionately. "There's not much aesthetic ambition here, is there?"
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105 | January shakes her head. She favours the fortress idea in principle; she just doesn't have much confidence that this example is well enough constructed.
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115 | January offers a rich variety of critiques on this idea, including that it is showy and bizarre; [...] and that the GHR's limited understanding of the Infernal aesthetic is likely to result in something more embarrassing than accurate.
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120 | "Is it meant to gain the Bazaar's favour?" asks January, squinting sideways at the plans. "If so, we'd probably get further by writing a poem of grovelling praise, the way lickspittles used to do."
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130 | If you had designed this plan specifically to aggravate January, you could not have done a better job. She despises the appearance; she despises the message. She recommends [...] a new station be proposed that is as unlike this as aesthetically possible.
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140 | "It could be a great deal worse," says January, in a tone of surprise. "But I'd still rather we didn't build it at all."
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150 | "It's embarrassing," January remarks, "when people think they miss the Sun." She won't be drawn to say very much more than that in the present environment.
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160 | January has a great deal to say on the subjects of insulation and thermodynamics, which she is delighted to explain at length.
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181, 184, 187 | "This proposal insults my intelligence," January scoffs. "Do you think I don't see through this scheme?"
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182, 185 | "It's not the worst location," January says. "But it's not ideal, and I see no reason to settle for this proposal."
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300 | "The proposal has the merit of frankness," January remarks. "But that doesn't make it a desirable goal."
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310 | "Ah, yes. Philanthropy." January's voice is wry behind her mask. "It's always certain people who get to be the philanthropists and decide where the charity should go, and certain other people that are meant to be grateful."
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520, 521, 523, 525 - 529 | "It is a fool's strategy," […] "Why is it that no group of more than three persons can ever lay down a sensible plan?" This remark seems to land more strongly with some […] than others, and you have the sense she is only partly talking about the GHR.
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800, 910 | January listens intently. Then she looks as though she is going to deliver a learned speech critiquing the injustice of appointing this candidate. But she simply votes No, instead.
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933 | […] "No, I don't think I'll go along with a plan so transparently driven by the Masters' desires." You can't get a good look at her expression behind that mask […] "Perhaps we should be asking the Union to consider a change of leadership, instead."
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1000, 1010, 1030 | "I would take a different approach," says January. "One that offered us more leverage against our other opponents."
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1100, 1110 | January closes her eyes and pinches the bridge of one of her noses. "The War is a distraction. Anything we might learn there is of necessity a lie. There are more important concerns closer to home."
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1200 | January gives a short, irritable speech about how the city was founded for the express purpose of keeping it away from London. It doesn't (in her view) need an increase of tourists or the questionable oversight of London authorities.
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