QUOTE (Ghello @ Mar 12 2008, 06:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I couldn't figure out what MoO ment right away either, though, since Trilby was the narrator, you can't argue. It would've been redundant writing "Ministry of Occult" over and over in his journals, so he shortened it, I don't see why acronyms are so bad.
Well, it wasn't exactly written in the form of a journal. But maybe let me try to illustrate my point:
I'm reading the story, I'm getting into the whole Scientific & Ethereal Realm atmosphere again, sending my thoughts running as I read the words, imagining the characters, the places mentioned, adjusting each picture in my head with each new piece of information given, weaving it all together and just then -