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If you desire to have any hopes you might have for the far future, the triumph of progress or generally for the innate goodness that will surely win out in the independent future of humankind shattered, I can recommend Against A Dark Background by Ian M Banks.

I reckon if you take that and add forgetful reincarnation (to deal with the 'what happens when you die again' problem), you get a pretty good approximation of Hell.

Melodrama factor may be increased by the way I spent all day interacting with people cheerfully in a sunny field dressed as a cowgirl and now my legs won't stop hurting.

And I have some kind of Important Client Meeting on Wednesday which I have been implored by several different people to Dress Smartly for, none of which could give me a concise summary of how I could construct Smartly out of my current wardrobe without dying of heat exhaustion in London.

But at least I have nice red shoes.

I am not sure whether to go and attempt to be pious now or just to bury myself in LOTRO and pretend that the world does not exist or at least that I have no hand in the fate of it.

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If I were going to Dress Smartly For A Client Meeting in London this week I would wear light work trousers (linen if I had any ironed, looseish relatively widelegged other fabric if not), flat but smart Actual Shoes and a Female Summer Top (eg: not a t-shirt, but something that was basically the same as a t-shirt but tailored and made of different fabric - dark patterned fabric hides sweat better, though if I was wearing red shoes I might wear red to go with that). And some token item of jewellry, like earrings or a bracelet to indicate how I had Made An Effort. And I'd tie my hair up off my neck into a bun or something so that I could lose heat there too. And possibly carry a hand fan/water, depending how hot it was.

I would carry a jacket that went with the trousers, and 10secs before the client arrived (or when I went into the airconditioned meeting room) I'd put it on. Then take it off again as soon as they had gone or when I went to get the Tube home. I'd also 'go to the loo' between arriving and the meeting, by which I mean, remove any sweat that I had accumulated using cunning application of wet tissues and reapply deodorant/token makeup.

If you do not have a red top or suitable jewellery, a Tesco Vivamortian Holy Symbol Tat Necklace is red and could tie an outfit together :) I have been to several things as a Documentation Assistant of the Balance or of Vivamort because I wanted something big and obvious to put round my neck to take people's mind off the fact that my trouser hems were coming unsewn/boots had recently attended a larp event several feet lower down.