On Shanglestone Strand

Ioconnu (known across Almery as 'The Laughing Magician') had worked one of his most mordant jokes on Cugel. For the second time Cugel had been snatched up, carried north across the Ocean of Sighs, dropped upon that melancholy beach known as Shanglestone Strand.

Jack Vance - 'Cugel's Saga'

Colin