He sprang to open the door for the ladies, when they retired, with the most killing grace […]

So ladies in romance assist their knight, / Present the spear, and arm him for the fight.

As we shall soon see, this latter point will become an important means of comparison and differentiation when we investigate the Discourse. Thus, even though Couturat believed this work to be a forestudy for the Discourse (L 267), it fails to be …

The purpose of worldbuilding isn't just to do a cool exercise, but to give a sense of place — and all of your thought experiments absolutely have to result in something vivid and alive.