Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Tamara de Lempicka Kizette on the Balcony

Tamara de Lempicka Kizette on the BalconyGustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch BauerBerthe Morisot At the BallClaude Monet Woman In A Green Dress
Blood-Soaked Tragedy of the Mad Monk of Quirm (with Custard-Pie scene)” were far better than being deaf in one ear for five days.
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Terry Pratchett
He fished a peanut out of the bag and rolled it in his fingers, while staring intently at the left ear of Tailor the other weaver.
And felt his hair rise. This is very noticeable on an orang-utan.
He glanced up at the hill behind the erratic actors, and growled under his breath.
“Oook?”
Ponder nudged him.
“Quiet!” he hissed. “They’re getting the hang of it...”
There was an echo to the voice of the one in the straw wig.
“What’d she say?” said Ponder.
“Oook!”
“Hpw’d she do And that was another thing.
She ought to have been involved in the dress, at least. She was going to—would have been the one wearing it, after all. There should have been weeks of choosing the material, and fittings, and changing her mind, and changing the mate-rial, and changing the pattern, and more fittings ...
. . . although of course she was her own woman and didn’t need that? That’s good makeup, that—“Ponder fell silent.Suddenly the Librarian felt very alone.Everyone else in the audience had their gaze fastened firmly on the turf stage.He moved a hand up and down in front of Stibbons’s face.The air was wavering over the hill, and the grass on its side moved in a way that made the ape’s eyes ache.“Oook?”Over the hill, between the little stones, it began to snow.“Oook?”Alone in her room, Magrat unpacked the wedding dress.

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