Hilary, though fashioned along austere lines both metaphorically and physically, always brought down the house with gales of hilarious laughter emanating from guests caught off guard by her unanticipated drollery. Given their otherwise drab minds and consequent like existence, these little folk -- among whom was Victoria -- got their jollies by vicarious means, even the nonsensically out-of-place water bearer, Aquarius, who was on his way to Olympus but became sidetracked by peals of human laughter and, later, those of Olympian thunder because he had permitted himself to be led astray by the foibles of man- and womankind.
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