...hard to remember, with everything he's trying to keep track of simultaneously, that in the Ordinary world Carissa is not reading his mind.

"Via the shopkeeper's claim that pornography was banned in Absalom, then passing what were obviously shops selling sex work, and those two things not going together, which made me realize that the pornography ban was a Conspiracy plot to prevent me from checking for erotic novels written with submissive masochists as viewpoint characters."

...hard to remember, with everything he's trying to keep track of simultaneously, that in the Ordinary world Carissa is not reading his mind.

"Via the shopkeeper's claim that pornography was banned in Absalom, then passing what were obviously storefronts advertising sex work, and those two things not going together, which made me realize that the pornography ban was a Conspiracy plot to prevent me from checking for erotic novels written with submissive masochists as viewpoint characters."