RSwordsman

What you've got there sounds to me like a railgun. They do have strong electromagnets, but the pulse is way too fast to pull him up to the cannon and ...

For the writers! Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and a ton of others. Maybe your character is enamored with the glamorous, freewheeling life of the expatriate author community?

I'd certainly be interested. My mind immediately jumps to a very effeminate/prissy guy who acts like royalty, and is shot down for his arrogance. A point about word choice, though. ...