Alphonse Maria Mucha La Dame aux Camelias

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SAME AGAIN, said a voice out of the shadows.
‘Er,’ said the barman. ‘Yeah. Sure. What was it?’
ANYTHING.
The barman filled it with rum. It was pulled away.
The barman sought for something to say. For some reason, he was feeling terrified.
‘Don’t see you in here, much,’ he managed.
I COME FOR THE ATMOSPHERE. SAME AGAIN.
‘Work in Holy Wood, do you?’said the barman, topping up the glass quickly. It vanished again.
NOT FOR SOME TIME. SAME AGAIN.
The barman They felt icy cold, and most of them were heavily corroded.
‘Oh, er‑‘ the barman began.
The door opened and shut, letting in a cold blast of air despite the warmth of the night.
The barman wiped the top of the bar in a distracted way, carefully avoiding the coins.
‘You see some funny types, running a bar,’ he muttered. A voice by his ear said, I FORGOT. A PACKET OF NUTS, PLEASE.hesitated. He was, at heart, a kindly soul. ‘You don’t think you’ve had enough, do you?’ he said. I KNOW EXACTLY WHEN I’VE HAD ENOUGH.‘Everyone says that, though.’I KNOW WHEN. EVERYONE’S HAD ENOUGH.There was something very odd about that voice. The barman wasn’t quite sure that he was hearing it with his ears. ‘Oh. Well, er,’ he said. ‘Same again?’NO. BUSY DAY TOMORROW. KEEP THE CHANGE.A handful of coins slid across the counter.

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Before Bathing

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Something that both Dibblers were agreed on was that, if they’d been in charge, no‑one would have been able to get away with such a low‑grade war. It was a crime that people should have been allowed to stage a major turning‑point in the history of the city without using thousands of people and camels and ditches and earthworks and C.M.O.T. nodded and was about to raise his hand when Soll’s arm shot out and grabbed it. The nephew was staring intently at the ranged ranks of horsemen.
‘Just one moment,’ he said levelly, and then cupped his hands and raised his voice siege‑engines and trebuckets and horses and banners.‘And in a bloody fog, too,’ said Gaffer. ‘No thought about light levels.’He surveyed the proposed field of battle, shading his eyes from the sun with one hand. There would be eleven handlemen working on this one, from every conceivable angle. One by one they held up their thumbs.Gaffer rapped on the picture box in front of him.‘Ready, lads?’ he said.There was a chorus of squeaks.‘Good lads,’ he said. ‘Get this one right and thee can have an extra lizard for thy tea.’He grasped the handle with one hand and picked up a megaphone with the other.‘Ready when you are, Mr Dibbler!’ he yelled.

Salvador Dali The Enigma of Desire

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was annoyed. He couldn’t find the Librarian anywhere. The ape never seemed to be around these days. He’d had to scrabble among the stuff himself.
‘I think this is the last, Archchancellor,’ he said, tipping an avalanche of dusty paperwork on to the desk. Ridcully flailed?’ the Bursar ventured. ‘Damn thing shot pellets at me,’ said Ridcully.
‘Twice!’
‘I’m sure it wasn’t, er, intended-’
‘I want to see how it was made, man! Just think of the sportin’ possibilities!’
The Bursar tried to think of the possibilities. at a cloud of moths. ‘Paper, paper, paper,’ he muttered. ‘How many damn bits of paper in his stuff, eh?’ ‘Er . . . 23,813, Archchancellor,’ said the Bursar. ‘He kept a record.’ ‘Look at this,’ said the Archchancellor. ‘ "Star Enumerator" . . . "Rev Counter for Use in Ecclesiastical Areas" . . . "Swamp Meter" . . . Swamp meter! The man was mad!’ ‘He had a very tidy mind,’ said the Bursar. ‘Same thing.’ ‘Is it, er, really important, Archchancellor

Diego Rivera The Flower Seller

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lot of this sort of thing, do you?’ he said to the trolls.
‘Yeah,’ said Galena. ‘All the time. Like, in A King’s Ransom, I play a troll who rushed out an’ hit people. An’ in The Dark Forest, I play a troll who rushed out an’ hit people. An’, an’, in Mystery Mountain I play a troll who rushed out, an’ jumped up an’ down on people. It doesn’t pay to get type-cast.’
‘And do you Victor a worried look, insofar as Victor was any judge of the range of expressions available to a face that looked as though it had been kicked out of granite with a pair of steel-toed boots. ‘What you fink?’ he said.
‘Er. Very nice.’ do the same thing?’ said Victor, to the other troll. ‘Oh, Morraine’s a character actor, ain’t you?’ said Galena. ‘Best in the business.’ ‘What does he play?’ ‘Rocks.’ Victor stared. ‘On account of his craggy features,’ Galena went on. ‘Not just rocks. You should see him do an ancient monolith. You’d be amazed. Go on, Morry, show ‘im yer inscription.’ ‘Nah,’ said Morraine, grinning sheepishly. ‘I’m thinking of changing my name for movin’ pictures,’ Galena went on. ‘Somethin’ with a bit o’ class. I thought "Flint".’ He gave

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Bursar knocked respectfully at the Archchancellor’s door and then opened it.
A crossbow bolt nailed his hat to the woodwork.
The be as calm as that without tremendous effort. ‘You can barely see the hole. Why, er, are you shooting at the door, Master?’
‘Use your common sense, man! It’s dark outside and the damn walls are made of stone. You don’t expect me to shoot at the damn walls?’
‘Ah,’ said the Bursar. ‘The door is, er, five hundred years old, you know,’ he added, with finely-tuned reproach.
‘Looks it,’ said the Archchancellor, bluntly. ‘Damn great black thing. What Archchancellor lowered the bow and glared at him. ‘Bloody dangerous thing to do, wasn’t it?’ he said. ‘You could have caused a nasty accident.’ The Bursar hadn’t got where he was today, or rather where he had been ten seconds ago, which was where a calm and self-assured personality was, rather than where he was now, which was on the verge of a mild heart attack, without a tremendous ability to recover from unexpected upsets. He unpinned his hat from the target chalked on the ancient woodwork. ‘No harm done,’ he said. No voice could

Paul Gauguin Spirit of the Dead Watching

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the history of the kingdom, man!'
'Yes. My memory.'
The king relaxed a little. Sheer horrified fascination was unravelling the knot of fury.
'How old are you?' he said.
'I think... seven thousand years. But sometimes it seems much longer.'
'Really seven thousand years?'
'Yes,' said Dios.
'How could any-re-ptah, pushing forward.
'You will destroy the kingdom,' said Dios. 'I cannot allow it.'
'You cannot allow it?'
'Yes. What will we be without the pyramids?' said Dios.
'Speaking for the dead,' said Far-re-ptah, 'we will be free.'
'But the kingdom will be just another small country,' said Dios, and to their horror the ancestors saw tears in his eyes. man stand it?' said the king. Dios shrugged. 'Seven thousand years is just one day at a time,' he said. Slowly, with the occasional wince, he got down on one knee and held up his staff in shaking hands. 'O kings,' he said, 'I have always existed only to serve.' There was a long, extremely embarrassed pause. 'We will destroy the pyramids,' said Far

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carefully examined before being sent out into the world.
'I'm basically good at making the sun rise,' he said. 'I don't know how, though. And rivers. You want any rivers flooding, I'm your man. God, I mean.'
He lapsed idly applying You Vicious Brute's Theory of Transient Integrals to a succession of promising cissoid numbers. Ptraci kicked him irritably.
'Do you know where there is water, then?' said Teppic. . . . e/27. Eleven miles . . .
Ptraci glared at him from kohl-ringed eyes. 'You mean you don't know? You were going to take me into the desert and you don't know where the water is?'
'Well, I rather expected I was going to be able to take some with me!'into silence as a thought struck him. 'I wonder what's happening in there without me?' he said. Ptraci stood up and set off down to the gorge. 'Where are you going?' She turned. 'Well, Mr King or God or assassin, or whatever, can you make water?' 'What, here?' 'I mean to drink. There may be a river hidden in that crack or there may not, but we can't get at it, can we? So we have to go somewhere where we can. It's so simple I should think even kings could understand it.' He hurried after her, down the scree to where You Bastard was lying with his head and neck flat on the ground, flicking his ears in the heat and

Jack Vettriano The Last Great Romantic

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on summer nights they were alive with students tackling the roofs, towers, eaves and colls of the city. Edificing was a keen inter-house sport in its own right; it was one of the few things Teppic was sure he was good at - he'd been captain of the team that beat Scorpion House in the Wallgame finals. And this was one of the easier courses.
He dropped lightly over the edge of the roof, landed on a ridge, ran easily across the sleeping building, jumped a His aunt had wept, rather theatrically, Teppic had thought, since the old lady was as tough as a hippo's instep. His father had looked stern and dignified, whenever he could remember to, and tried to keep his mind free of beguiling images of cliffs and fish. The servants had been lined up along the hall from the foot of the main stairway, narrow gap on to the tiled roof of the Young Men's Reformed-Cultists-of-the-Ichor-God-Bel-Shamharoth Association gym, jogged gently over the grey slope, swarmed up a twelve foot wall without slowing down, and vaulted on to the wide flat roof of the Temple of Blind Io. A full, orange moon hung on the horizon. There was a real breeze up here, not much, but as refreshing as a cold shower after the stifling heat of the streets. He speeded up, enjoying the coolness on his face, and leapt accurately off the end of the roof on to the narrow plank bridge that led across Tinlid Alley. And which someone, in defiance of all probability, had removed. At times like this one's past life flashes before one's eyes. . .

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'Hmm?' said the dwarf, his mind wrestling with ways of building thunder-and-lightning machines.
'There's no crown, Hwel. I've got to wear a crown.'
'Of course there's a crown. The big one with the red glass, very impressive, we used it in that place with the big square—'
'I think we left it there.'
There was another tinny roll of thunder but, even so, the part of Hwel that was living the play heard a faltering voice on stage. He darted to the wings.
'—I have It would be nice to say it tingled under his hand. Perhaps it did.

Granny was sitting as still as a statue, and almost as cold. The horror of realisation was stealing over her.
'That's us,' she said. 'Round that silly cauldron. That's meant to be us, Gytha.'smother'd many a babe—' he hissed, and sprinted back.'Well, just find another one, then,' he said vaguely. 'In the props box. You're the Evil King, you've got to have a crown. Get on with it, lad, you're on in a few minutes. Improvise.'Tomjon wandered back to the box. He'd grown up among crowns, big golden crowns made of wood and plaster, studded with finest glass. He'd cut his teeth on the hat-brims of Authority. But most of them had been left in the Dysk now. He pulled out collapsible daggers and skulls and vases, the strata of the years and, right at the bottom, his fingers closed on something thin and crown shaped, which no-one had ever wanted to wear because it looked so uncrownly.

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Just hereafter, girl, it's what you're supposed to say in these circumstances, you might try and make an effort", and 'No, but I mean, last night, I had this dream about a little bandy-legged man walking down a road,' said Hwel. 'He had a little black hat on, and he walked as though his boots were full of water.'
Tomjon nodded politely.
'Yes?' he said. 'And—?'
'Well, that was it. And nothing. He had this little cane which he twirled and, you know, it was incredibly . . .'then they all peered closer, and one of the others said, "He looks a bit peaky, I reckon it's all that foreign food", and then the youngest one said, "Nanny, I've told you already, there's no such place as Thespia", and then they bickered a bit, and one of the old ones said, "He can't hear us, can he? He's tossing and turning a bit", and the other one said, "You know I've never been able to get sound on this thing, Esme", and then they bickered some more, and it went cloudy, and then . . . I woke up . . .' he finished lamely. 'It was horrible, because every time they came close to the bowl it sort of magnified everything, so all you could see was eyes and nostrils.'Hwel hoisted himself on to the edge of the narrow bed.'Funny old things, dreams,' he said.'Not much funny about that one.'

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had earned him the biggest thrashing of his life, which even then must have presented the old joker with a bit of a challenge.
'You will learn, my lad—' he recalled, with every sentence punctuated by jingling cracks – 'that there is nothing more serious than jesting. From now on you will never—' the old man paused to change hands – 'never, . There was a whole circular world out there, full of weird places and people doing interesting things, like . . .
Singing. He could hear singing.
He raised his head cautiously, and jumped at the tinkle of the bells on his cap. He gripped the hated things hurriedly.
The singing went on. The Fool peeped cautiously through the drift of meadowsweet that was providing never, ever utter a joke that has not been approved by the Guild. Who are you to decide what is amusing? Marry, let the untutored giggle at unskilled banter; it is the laughter of the ignorant. Never. Never. Never let me catch you joculating again.'After that he'd gone back to learning the three hundred and eighty-three Guild-approved jokes, which was bad enough, and the glossary, which was a lot bigger and much worse.And then he'd been sent to Ankh, and there, in the bare, severe rooms, he'd found there were books other than the great heavy brass-bound Monster Fun Book

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Granny, feeling in some obscure way that they had scored a minor triumph over the purveyors of untruth and artifice, helped herself to an apple from the bag and began to take a fresh interest. Magrat's nerves started to unknot, about the conventions of the theatre. She had been dreading this bit. Granny Weatherwax had Views.
'Yes, but,' she said wretchedly, 'it's the Theatre, see. All the women are played by men.'
'Why?'
'They don't allow no women on the stage,' said Magrat in a small voice. She shut her eyes.and she began to settle down to enjoy the play. But not, as it turned out, for very long. Her willing suspension of disbelief was interrupted by a voice saying:'What's this bit?'Magrat sighed. 'Well,' she hazarded, 'he thinks that he is the prince, but he's really the other king's daughter, dressed up as a man.'Granny subjected the actor to a long analytical stare.'He is a man,' she said. 'In a straw wig. Making his voice squeaky.'Magrat shuddered. She knew a little

Vincent van Gogh The good Samaritan Delacroix

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life have you got left?'
'Ninety-one days, three hours and five minutes,' said Albert promptly. 'I knew he was on my trail, see? But I'm safe here and he's not such a bad master. Sometimes I don't know what he'd do without me.'
'Yes, no-one dies in Death's own kingdom. And you're pleased with that?' said Mort.
'I'm more than two thousand years old, I am. I've lived longer than anyone in the world.'
Mort shook his head.
'You haven't, you know,' he said. 'You've just stretched things out more. No-one really lives here. The time in this place is just a sham. It's not real. Nothing changes. I'd rather die and see what happens next than spend eternity here.'Albert pinched his nose reflectively. 'Yes, well, you might,' he conceded, 'but I was a wizard, you know. I was pretty good at it. They put up a statue to me, you know. But you don't live a long life as a wizard without making a few enemies, see, ones who'll . . . wait on the Other Side.'He sniffed. They ain't all got two legs, either. Some of them ain't got legs at all. Or faces. Death don't frighten me. It's what comes after.''Help me, then.''What good will that do me?''One day you might need some friends on the Other Side,' said Mort. He thought for a few seconds and added, 'If I were you, it wouldn't do any harm to give my soul a bit of a last-minute polish. Some of those waiting for you might not like the taste of that.'
Albert shuddered and shut his eyes.

Alphonse Maria Mucha Autumn

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saw shadows moving against it, and made out a few snatches of song. It was an inn, and inside there were people having a good time, or what passed for a good time if you were a peasant who spent most of your time closely concerned with cabbages. Compared to brassicas, practically anything is fun.patted him on the nose, and fumbled in his pocket for a rather grubby sugar lump. He was aware that he was in the presence of something important, but he wasn't yet quite sure what it was.
There was a road running between and disappearing.
After some searching he found a stick and poked it cautiously into the wall. It made strange ripples that wobbled slowly out of sight.
Mort looked up as a shape drifted overhead. It was a black owl, patrollng the ditches for anything small and squeaky.

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and headed for the courtyard. Mort stared at the floor for a moment, and then ran after him in a way which he knew to be extremely unprofessional and undignified.
'Now look —' hemanner. The monk turned and smiled pleasantly at him.
'I wish I could,' he said. 'Perhaps one day. Now, if you could give me a lift as far as the nearest village, I imagine I'm being conceived about now.'
'Conceived? But you've just died!' said Mort.
'Yes, but, you see, I have what you might call a season ticket,' the abbot explained.
Light dawned on Mort, but very slowly.
'Oh,' he said, 'I've read about this. Reincarnation, yes?' began.'The other one had a horse called Binky, I remember,' said the abbot pleasantly. 'Did you buy the round off him?'The round?' said Mort, now completely lost.'Or whatever. Forgive me,' said the abbot, 'I don't really know how these things are organised, lad.''Mort,' said Mort, absently. 'And I think you're supposed to come back with me, sir. If you don't mind,' he added, in what he hoped was a firm and authoritative

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expected the arm to fly off at the elbow, transferred itself down the length of his body to his legs and propelled him forward like a high-speed stilt walker. The frying pan followed a series of intricate curves in the air and was brought to a halt just over Mort's plate.
Albert did can't see him sitting down to a couple of rashers and a fried slice.'
Albert grinned. 'Oh, he doesn't, lad. Not as a regular thing, no. Very easy to cater indeed have exactly the right type of half-moon spectacles to peer over the top of.'There could be some porridge to follow,' he said, and winked, apparently to include Mort in the world porridge conspiracy.'Excuse me', said Mort, 'but where am I, exactly?''Don't you know? This is the house of Death, lad. He brought you here last night.''I – sort of remember. Only. . . .'Hmm?''Well. The bacon and eggs,' said Mort, vaguely. 'It doesn't seem, well, appropriate.''I've got some black pudding somewhere,' said Albert.'No, I mean . . .' Mort hesitated. 'It's just that I

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She looked the other way, at the staff in her hand, and her lips went thin. She knew her grip hadn't slipped. The staff had lunged at Simon, with murder in its heartwood.
The boy lay on a hard bed in a narrow room, a cold towel folded across his forehead. Treatle and Cutangle watched him carefully.
"How long has it been?" said Cutangle.
Trestle shrugged. "Three days."
"And he been a working wizard all somehow I never really understood magic until he explained it. So clear. So, well, obvious."
"Everyone says that," said Trestle gloomily. "They say it's like having a hoodwink pulled off and seeing the daylight for the first time."
"That's exactly it," said Cutangle, "He's sourcerer material, sure enough. You hasn't come around once?" "No." Cutangle sat down heavily on the edge of the bed, and pinched the bridge of his nose wearily. Simon had never looked his face had a horrible sunken look. "A. brilliant mind, that one," he said. "His explanation of the fundamental principles of magic and matter - quite astounding." Trestle nodded. "The way he just absorbs knowledge," said Cutangle: "I've

Jean Beraud La Rue de la Paix

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You do it, Granny," said Esk, "in the village. I've seen you. And teacups. And cards."
Granny shifted uneasily. "Yes, well," she said. "It's all according. You just hold their hand and people do their own fortune-telling. But there's no need to go around believing it, we'd all be in trouble if we went around believing everything."
"The Powers journey," said Hilts.
"Will I meet a tall dark stranger?" said Esk, examining her palm. "Granny always says that to women, she says -"
"No," said Hilts, while Granny snorted. "But it will be a very strange journey. You'll go a long way while staying in the same place. And the direction will be a strange one. It will be an exploration."
"You can tell all that from my hand?"That Be have many strange qualities, and puzzling and varied are the ways in which they make their desires known in this circle of firelight we call the physical world," said Hilts solemnly. She winked at Esk. "Well, really," snapped Granny. "No, straight up," said Hilts. "It's true." "Hmph." "I see you going upon a long

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'Look,' he said. 'Go away. I'm giving you to yourself, do you understand?'
He turned his back on it and stalked away. After a few seconds he was aware of the little footsteps behind him. He spun around.
'I said two dots on a dwindling landscape which, as the perspective broadened, included a tiny ship starting out across a wide green sea that was but a part of a bright circling ocean on a cloud-swirled Disc on the back of four giant elephants that themselves stood on the shell of an enormous turtle.
Which soon became a glint among the stars, and disappeared.
I don't want you!' he snapped, and gave it a kick.The Luggage sagged. Rincewind stalked away.After he had gone a few yards he stopped and listened. There was no sound. When he turned the Luggage was where he had left it. It looked sort of huddled. Rincewind hought for a while.'All right, then,' he said. 'Come on.'He turned his back and strode off to the University. After a few minutes the Luggage appeared to make up its mind, extended its legs again and padded after him. It didn't see that it had a lot of choice.They headed along the quay and into the city,

Pino SWEET DREAMS

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There have been three general theories put forward to explain the phenomenon of the wandering shops or, as they are generically known, tabernae vagantes.
The first The third is that they are simply a very clever way of getting around the various Sunday Closing acts.
All these theories, diverse as they are, have two things in common. They explain the observed facts, and they are completely and utterly wrong.
&nbpostulates that many thousands of years ago there evolved somewhere in the multiverse a race whose single talent was to buy cheap and sell dear. Soon they controlled a vast galactic empire or, as they put it, Emporium, and the more advanced members of the species found a way to equip their very shops with unique propulsion units that could break the dark walls of space itself and open up vast new markets. And long after the orlds of the Emporium perished in the heat death of their particular universe, after one last defiant fire sale, the wandering starshops still ply their trade, eating their way through the pages of spacetime like a worm through a three-volume novel.The second is that they are the creation of a sympathetic Fate, charged with the role of supplying exactly the right thing at the right time.

Zhang Xiaogang A Big Family

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The wizards looked at one another, embarrassed. Eventually Wert said. 'Yes. All right. Cards on the table. I an't seem to locate him.'
'I've tried scrying,' said another. 'Nothing.'
'I've sent familiars,' said a third. The others sat up. If confessing failure was the order of the day, then they were damn well going to make it clear that they had failed heroically.that all? I've sent demons.'
'I've looked into the Mirror of Oversight.'
'Last night I sought him out in the Runes of M'haw.'
'I'd like to makeuneasily in his seat.
'Yes, with bells on, I expect,' said someone.
'I never said they answered, did I?'
Trymon looked along the table.
'I've sent someone to find him,' he said.
Wert snorted. 'That didn't work out so well the last two times, did it?'
'That was because we relied on magic, but it is obvious that Rincewind is somehow hidden from magic. But he can't hide his footprints.' it clear that I tried both the Runes and the Mirror and the entrails of a manicreach.''I've spoken to the beasts of the field and the birds of the Air.''Any good?''Nah.'Well, I've questioned the very bones of the country, yea, and the deep stones and the mountains thereof.'There was a sudden chilly silence. Everyone looked at the wizard who had spoken. It was Ganmack Treehallet, of the Venerable Seers, who shifted

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Those wizards with enough marbles left to think with and enough breath to run followed him, running through continents that sleeted smoothly through the solid stone.

It was a still night, tinted with the promise of dawn. A crescent moon was just setting. Ankh-Morpork, largest city in the of the less law-abiding citizens were wide awake and, for instance, climbing through windows that didn't, t belong to them, slitting throats, mugging one another, listening to loud music in smoky cellars and gener,erally having a lot more fun. But most of the animals were asleep, except for the rats. And the bats, too, of course. As far as the insects were concerned . . .
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entireliy accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II is Patrician of Ankh some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty into reporting. Thus, if a legend said of a notable hero that 'all men lands around the Circle Sea, slept.That statement is not really true.On the one hand, those parts of the city which normally concerned themselves with, for example, selling vegetables, shoeing horses, carving exquisite small jade ornaments, changing money and making tables, on the whole, slept. Unless they had insomnia. Or had got up in the night. as it might be, to go to the lavatory. On the other hand, many

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priapic Hrun into a Hrun moving sideways at eighty miles an hour with no ill-effects whatsoever, except for a few wasted dimensional echoes of a theory being at the same instant hatched in the mind of an early psychiatrist in an adjacent universe, possibly because the dimension-leak was flowing both ways, and for a moment the psychiatrist saw the girl on the dragon. The loremaster smiled.
"Want to bet that she won't catch him?" said Greicha, in a voice of worms and sepulchres, right by his earmouthfuls of wine. Another effect was to cause Liessa to scream with rage and summon her dragon. As the gold beast materialised in front of her she leapt astride it, still naked, and snatched a crossbow from one of the guards. Then she was airborne, while the other dragonriders swarmed towards their own beasts.The Loremaster, watching from the pillar he had prudently slid behind in the mad scramble happened at that moment to catch the cross