Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Stemming Raisins Javea

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a quote. 'Big Fido said that?' Angua hazarded.
The poodle turned its head. For the first time she saw its eyes. They were red, and as mad as hell. Anything with eyes like that could There was no flash of light when It happened. He'd just been lying in his basket one night and he'd thought about his name, which was Fido, and the name on the basket, which was Fido. And he thought about his blanket with Fido on it, and his bowl with Fido on it, and above all he brooded on the collar with Fido on it, and something somewhere deep in his brain had gone 'click' and he'd eaten his blanket, savaged his owner and dived out through the kitchen window. In the street outside a labrador four times the size of Fido had sniggered at the collar, and thirty seconds later had fled, whimpering.
That had just been the start.kill anything it wanted because madness, true madness, can drive a fist through a plank.'Yes,' said Big Fido. He had been a normal dog. He'd begged, and rolled over, and heeled, and fetched. Every night he'd been taken for a walk.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Unknown Artist Albert Edelfelt Virginie

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actually a bad man. He didn't have the imagination. He dealt more in that sort of generalized low-grade unpleasantness which slightly tarnishes anything.'
'Captain Vimes—'
'It's all right. We know. Give him your weapons, people. That's an order, Carrot. One official issue sword, one pike or halberd, one night stick or truncheon, one crossbow. That's right, isn't it, Sergeant Colon?'
'Yessir.'
Carrot hesitated only a moment.
'Oh, well,' he said. 'My official sword is in the rack.'the soul of all who come into \people are in jobs that are a little beyond them, but there are ways of reacting to the situation. Sometimes they're flustered and nice, sometimes they're Quirke. Quirke handled them with the maxim: it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, so long as you're definite. There was, on the whole, no real racial prejudice in Ankh-Morpork; when you've got dwarfs and trolls, the mere colour of other, humans is not a major item. But Quirke was the kind of man to whom it comes naturally to pronounce the word negro with two gs.He had a hat with plumes in it.'Come in, come in,' said Vimes. 'It wasn't as if we were doing

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne

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There were various weapons, some of them half finished, on racks by the bench. Vimes picked up most of a crossbow.
'He did good work,' he said. 'Very good at mechanisms.'
'Well known for it,' 'I should think it is!'
'I mean, it's made to be buried with a dwarf. Every dwarf is buried with a weapon. You know? To take with him to . . . wherever he's going.'
'But it's fine workmanship! And it's got an edge like – aargh,' Vimes sucked his finger, 'like a razor.'
Carrot looked shocked. 'Of course. It'd be no good him facing them with an inferior weapon.'
'What them are you talking about?'said Carrot, poking around aimlessly on the bench. 'A very delicate hand. He made musical boxes for a hobby. Could never resist a mechanical challenge. Er. What are we looking for actually, sir?''Not sure. Now this is good . . .'It was a war axe, and so heavy that Vimes' arm sagged. Intricate etched lines covered the blade. It must have represented weeks of work.'Not your actual Saturday night special, eh?''Oh no,' said Carrot, 'that's a burial weapon.'

Monday, April 27, 2009

Thomas Kinkade Home For Christmas

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had to allow, though, that Dr Cruces recovered very quickly. He didn't explode when he read the letter, or argue, or claim it was a forgery'You mean he's still in there?'
'How do I know? Hoods and cloaks, everyone in black 'How come you were able to fee this?'
'Oh, I always nip into the Assassins' Guild on a Wednesday night. He simply folded it up, handed it back, and said, coldly, 'I see. The freehold, at least.''Quite so. Could you tell me what has been happening, please?'He was aware of other senior Assassins entering the courtyard through the hole in the wall. They were very carefully looking at the debris.Dr Cruces hesitated for a moment.'Fireworks,' he said. 'What happened,' said Gaspode, 'was that someone put a dragon in a box right up against the wall inside the courtyard, right, and then they went and hid behind one of the statues and pulled a string and next minute – bang!''Bang?'' 'S'right. Then our friend nips into the hole for a few seconds, right, comes out again, trots around the courtyard and next minute there's Assassins everywhere and he's among 'em. What the hell. Another man in black. No-one notices, see?'

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Tamara de Lempicka Andromeda

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Nanny lifted out the paperwork. The first envelope was addressed to her, and bore the legend: To Gytha Ogge, Reade This NOWE.
The second envelope was a bit smaller and said: The Will of Esmerelda Weatherwax, Died Midsummer’s Eve.
And then there was a bundle of letters with a bit of string round them. They were very old; bits of yellowing paper crackled off them as Magrat picked them up.
“They’re all letters to her,” she said.
“Nothing odd about Always tried to see inside to the real thing.”
They were both silent for a moment, and the silence wound out around them and filled the kitchen, to be sliced into gentle pieces by the soft ticking of the clock.
“I never thought we’d be doing this,” said Magrat, after a while. “I never thought we’d be reading her will. I thought she’d keep on going for ever.”
“Well, there it is,” said Nanny. “Tempus fuggit.”that,” said Nanny. “Anyone can get letters.”“And there’s all this stuff at the bottom,” said Magrat.“It looks like pebbles.”She held one up.“This one’s got one of those curly fossil things in it,” she said. “And this one . . . looks like that red rock the Dancers were made of. It’s got a darning needle stuck to it. How strange.”“She always paid attention to small details, did Esme.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Pop art king elvis on red

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It struck Shawn immediately that this wasn’t the right thing to say.
It was black, , she jolly well got on her horse and went and rescued him. Well, I’m going to do that too.”
Shawn tried to grin.
“You’re going to sing7” he said.
“I’m going to fight. I’ve got everything to fight for, haven’t I? And I’ve tried everything else.”
Shawn wanted to say: but that’s not the same! Going and fighting when you’re a real person isn’t like folksongs! In real life you die! In folksongs you just have to remember to keep one finger in your ear and how to get to the next chorus! In real life no one goes wack-fol-a-diddle-di-do-sing-too-rah-li-ay!and larger than what Magrat had to think of as a human horse. It rolled red eyes at her, and tried to get into position to kick.Magrat managed to mount only by practically tethering every leg to the rings in the stable wall, but when she was on, the horse changed. It had the docility of the severely whipped, and seemed to have no mind of its own.“It’s the iron,” said Shawn.“What does it do to them? It can’t hurt.”“Don’t know, miss. Seems they just freeze up, kind of thing.”“Drop the portcullis after I’m through.”“Miss—““Are you going to tell me not to go?”“But—““Shut up, then.”“But—““I remember a folksong about a situation just like this,” said Magrat. “This girl had her fiance stolen by the Queen of the Elves and she didn’t hang around whining

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Child's Siesta

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She’s looking for a way,” Granny repeated.
“Good morrow, brothers, and wherehap do we whist this merry day?” said Carter the baker.
The rest of the Lancre Morris Men looked at him.
“You on some kind of medication or what?” said Weaver the thatcher.
“Just trying to enter into the spirit of the thing,” said Carter.
“That’s how these buggers in the writing,” said Carter the baker. “I never said ‘fol-de-rol’ in my life. And I can’t understand any of the jokes.”
“You ain’t supposed to understand the jokes, this is a play,” said Jason.
“Drawers!” said Baker the weaver.
“Oh, shut up. And push the cart.”
“Don’t see why we couldn’t do the Stick and Bucket Dance ...” mumbled Tailor the other weaver.
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dance! I still get twinges in my kneerude mechanicals talk.”“Who’re rude mechanicals?” said Baker the weaver.“They’re the same as Comic Artisans, I think,” said Carter the baker.“I asked my mum what artisans are,” said Jason.“Yeah?”“They’re us.”“And we’re Rude Mechanicals as well?” said Baker the weaver.“I reckon.”“Bum!”“Well, we certainly don’t talk like