Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Leroy Neiman Nantucket Sailing

Leroy Neiman Nantucket SailingUnknown Artist Apple Tree with Red FruitGeorge Frederick Watts Orpheus and EurydiceGeorge Frederick Watts Orpheus and Eurydice detailUnknown Artist The SunFlowers
Does that mean he’ll be playing kettle drums and doing that bimbo dancing all night, then?’
‘Is that what they do?’
‘Old Windle? Doesn’t sound like his cup of tea. He never liked dancing much when he was alive -‘ ‘Anyway, you can’t trust those voodoo gods. Never trust a god who grins all the time and wears a top hat, that’s my motto.’ ‘- I’m damned if I’m going to give up my bedroom to a zombie after waiting years for it -‘ ‘Is it? That’s a funny motto.’
Windle No wonder the undead were traditionally considered to be very angry.
Something wonderful, if you took the long view, was about to happen. If you took the short or medium view, something horrible was about to happen.
It’s like the difference between seeing a beautiful new star in the winter
sky and actually being close toPoons strolled around the inside of his own head again. Strange thing, this. Now he was dead, or not living any more, or whatever he was, his mind felt clearer than it had ever done. And control seemed to be getting easier, too. He hardly had to bother about the whole respiratory thing, the spleen seemed to be working after a fashion, the senses were operating at full speed. The digestive system was still a bit of a mystery, though.He looked at himself in a silver plate.He still looked dead. Pale face, red under the eyes. A dead body. Operating but still, basically, dead. Was that fair? Was that justice? Was that a proper reward for being a firm believer in reincarnation for almost 130 years? You come back as a corpse?

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