Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night paintingFrank Dicksee La Belle Dame Sans Merci paintingEdward Hopper Nighthawks painting
It was all over," her mother repeated. "In no time at all. The scanner went away; the panel-lights and the humming went back to normal; I could move my arms and legs again. I'd have thought I dreamt the whole thing -- just as everyone else thinks I did, if they believe I was there at all -- but I still felttender from the heat. You know. And when I went to get up I felt some wetness there -- all of a sudden, thiswetness. And as soon as I felt it, and moved, and felt it clear on up, I realized something hadgone all the way - - and it would have to be the GILES."
Despite her certainty, however -- which I was in better position to share than Anastasia -- Miss Hector had said nothing of the marvelous incident to anyone, even when the GILES was found missing next morning and Dr. Eierkopf had pressed her closely on her evening's work. Not until the fact of was unquestionable -- and unconcealable -- had she confessed it in a panic to her father, the then Chancellor
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Ford Madox Brown The Coat of Many Colors painting
Ford Madox Brown The Coat of Many Colors paintingPierre Auguste Renoir La Loge paintingPierre Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival painting
breakthrough he'd recently achieved and was about to put to use: a precision honing device he called the Infinite Divisor. Attached to one end of the fulcrum-bar, its two opposed milling-heads -- tiny diamond-dust affairs -- would dart along the upper knife-edge, honing it as they went; during their approach to the hole in the escapement-shaft (the point on which the whole assembly pivoted) automatic calibrators would halve and halve again,ad infinitum, the width of the edge, until theoretically it reached a perfect point at the center of the hole and the midpoint of the Tick-Tock swing -- a point whose measurement would incidentally be recorded on the calibrator-gauges.
"One moment, sir!" I protested, dizzied by this conception. Croaker held his sweatshirt-front out from his scars and whimpered a little. "It seems to me-"
"Pretty smart,ja?" He may have been addressing Croaker, whose head he patted, or myself. I agreed that the idea was striking, but wondered about certain theoretical problems which I sensed more than saw articulably: a riddle
breakthrough he'd recently achieved and was about to put to use: a precision honing device he called the Infinite Divisor. Attached to one end of the fulcrum-bar, its two opposed milling-heads -- tiny diamond-dust affairs -- would dart along the upper knife-edge, honing it as they went; during their approach to the hole in the escapement-shaft (the point on which the whole assembly pivoted) automatic calibrators would halve and halve again,ad infinitum, the width of the edge, until theoretically it reached a perfect point at the center of the hole and the midpoint of the Tick-Tock swing -- a point whose measurement would incidentally be recorded on the calibrator-gauges.
"One moment, sir!" I protested, dizzied by this conception. Croaker held his sweatshirt-front out from his scars and whimpered a little. "It seems to me-"
"Pretty smart,ja?" He may have been addressing Croaker, whose head he patted, or myself. I agreed that the idea was striking, but wondered about certain theoretical problems which I sensed more than saw articulably: a riddle
Guido Reni Baptism of Christ painting
Guido Reni Baptism of Christ paintingGuido Reni reni Aurora paintingFrancois Boucher The Toilet of Venus painting
certified that only suffering could expiate them, he must believe that Bray was after all what He claimed to be (with stinging heart I heard the pronoun shift to upper-case); Max's encouragement of me, a mere common foundling, must be but one more instance of his perverse Moishianism. . .
"Stop this!" I said. "This is hateful!"
He shrugged. "So hate me, I got it coming."
Stoker thrust his grin through a small square panel at one end of the middle space. "Got so there was a crowd upstairs," he said, as if confidentially. "Mind if I sit in? Maxie breaks me up."
I was too hurt and appalled by my erstwhile advisor's declarations to acknowledge the intrusion, though as always Stoker's grin filled the room like a sound, or odor, or change of temperature.
"Ido hate it when you talk that way!" I cried to Max. "Youmake people hate you. It's like Anastasia, and people taking advantage of her!"
certified that only suffering could expiate them, he must believe that Bray was after all what He claimed to be (with stinging heart I heard the pronoun shift to upper-case); Max's encouragement of me, a mere common foundling, must be but one more instance of his perverse Moishianism. . .
"Stop this!" I said. "This is hateful!"
He shrugged. "So hate me, I got it coming."
Stoker thrust his grin through a small square panel at one end of the middle space. "Got so there was a crowd upstairs," he said, as if confidentially. "Mind if I sit in? Maxie breaks me up."
I was too hurt and appalled by my erstwhile advisor's declarations to acknowledge the intrusion, though as always Stoker's grin filled the room like a sound, or odor, or change of temperature.
"Ido hate it when you talk that way!" I cried to Max. "Youmake people hate you. It's like Anastasia, and people taking advantage of her!"
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Gustave Courbet Plage de Normandie painting
Gustave Courbet Plage de Normandie paintingThomas Kinkade HOMETOWN MORNING paintingThomas Kinkade HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS painting
among well-educated humans. But it seemed more important to get back to my advising, and when I reverted to that matter, Mrs. Sear changed her tone completely. I could not do better, she declared seriously, than to have Kennard Sear for my advisor, as he was the most knowledgeable man on campus; in fact, he knew all the Answers, despite his perversions.
"Notdespite, my dear:because of. George understands the tragic view."
They kissed most cordially. The mixture of affections in the Sears' relation I found quite as curious as their amatory whimsies, in the goat-barn had left me open-minded in that latter regard. But their goodwill towards me was evident. Gratefully I put myself into their charge, stipulating only that in view of the urgent work at hand we forgo any further embraces --à deux, trois, orquatre, onscreen or off -- for the present.
"I quite agree," the doctor said. The important thing, in his opinion, was for me to by-pass the ordinary machinery of registration and deal only with the highest authorities; otherwise -- since Bray's advent had put the campus into such confusion, and
among well-educated humans. But it seemed more important to get back to my advising, and when I reverted to that matter, Mrs. Sear changed her tone completely. I could not do better, she declared seriously, than to have Kennard Sear for my advisor, as he was the most knowledgeable man on campus; in fact, he knew all the Answers, despite his perversions.
"Notdespite, my dear:because of. George understands the tragic view."
They kissed most cordially. The mixture of affections in the Sears' relation I found quite as curious as their amatory whimsies, in the goat-barn had left me open-minded in that latter regard. But their goodwill towards me was evident. Gratefully I put myself into their charge, stipulating only that in view of the urgent work at hand we forgo any further embraces --à deux, trois, orquatre, onscreen or off -- for the present.
"I quite agree," the doctor said. The important thing, in his opinion, was for me to by-pass the ordinary machinery of registration and deal only with the highest authorities; otherwise -- since Bray's advent had put the campus into such confusion, and
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Daniel Ridgway Knight Shepherdess and her Flock painting
Daniel Ridgway Knight Shepherdess and her Flock paintingDaniel Ridgway Knight Hailing the Ferry paintingSir Henry Raeburn The Reverend Robert Walker Skating painting
poodle or the Dean of Studies! I was still interested sometimes in women then; let a pretty baggage from Theater Arts refuse me her company or make fun of my eyeglasses: I'd point her out to Croacker on the sly, and one night soon I'd have the joy to see her boggle at his awful tup!"
In sum, Croaker could not have survived long on the campus without Eierkopf's help, and the scientist in turn would have had Croaker been shot to death, say, by the father of some ruined sophomore, or lynched by the White Students' Council. However much, then, he might despair at Croaker's grossness, and Croaker perhaps at his roommate's incapacity and frailness; however much they each might yearn at times to live alone or with a partner more congenial -- which yearning Maurice Stoker had lately played upon, for mischief's sake -- at their best they muddled through, strange bedfellows, who in any case were bound by the strictest of leases, which could not be broken before its term. And so strong a thing is custom, Eierkopf declared, he soon could scarcely recall having ever lived alone; it was as if he and Croaker had been together from the beginning, for better or worse. What was more, if their connection was at best uneasy
poodle or the Dean of Studies! I was still interested sometimes in women then; let a pretty baggage from Theater Arts refuse me her company or make fun of my eyeglasses: I'd point her out to Croacker on the sly, and one night soon I'd have the joy to see her boggle at his awful tup!"
In sum, Croaker could not have survived long on the campus without Eierkopf's help, and the scientist in turn would have had Croaker been shot to death, say, by the father of some ruined sophomore, or lynched by the White Students' Council. However much, then, he might despair at Croaker's grossness, and Croaker perhaps at his roommate's incapacity and frailness; however much they each might yearn at times to live alone or with a partner more congenial -- which yearning Maurice Stoker had lately played upon, for mischief's sake -- at their best they muddled through, strange bedfellows, who in any case were bound by the strictest of leases, which could not be broken before its term. And so strong a thing is custom, Eierkopf declared, he soon could scarcely recall having ever lived alone; it was as if he and Croaker had been together from the beginning, for better or worse. What was more, if their connection was at best uneasy
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Albert Bierstadt the oregon trail painting
Albert Bierstadt the oregon trail paintingThomas Kinkade country living paintingGeorges Seurat The Island of La Grande Jatte painting
stay me, but the ladies slow me down.
[TO AGENORA]
Bye-bye now, Deaness; next time I'm in town
I'll look you up.
AGENORA: You know my address, hon.
TALIPED: [TO MAILMAN]
Hey, wait! You mean to tell me I'm the one
you bought and sold?
MAILMAN: Are your feet scarred?
TALIPED: They always have been.
MAILMAN: And your ID-card
saysTaliped Decanus,does it not?
TALIPED: Of course it does.
MAILMAN: And I guess you know what
Talipedmeans?
TALIPED: It means "swollen foot."
MAILMAN: You're It, then, pal.
TALIPED: By George! I never put
two and two together until now!
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: A mathematician you aren't. But tell me how
a woman like your wife can go to bed
for nine years with a man namedTaliped
and never see his scars!
AGENORA: Listen, tootsie:
you and your wife might like playing footsie,
but when a fellow goes to bed with me,
it isn't his big toe I want to see.
stay me, but the ladies slow me down.
[TO AGENORA]
Bye-bye now, Deaness; next time I'm in town
I'll look you up.
AGENORA: You know my address, hon.
TALIPED: [TO MAILMAN]
Hey, wait! You mean to tell me I'm the one
you bought and sold?
MAILMAN: Are your feet scarred?
TALIPED: They always have been.
MAILMAN: And your ID-card
saysTaliped Decanus,does it not?
TALIPED: Of course it does.
MAILMAN: And I guess you know what
Talipedmeans?
TALIPED: It means "swollen foot."
MAILMAN: You're It, then, pal.
TALIPED: By George! I never put
two and two together until now!
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: A mathematician you aren't. But tell me how
a woman like your wife can go to bed
for nine years with a man namedTaliped
and never see his scars!
AGENORA: Listen, tootsie:
you and your wife might like playing footsie,
but when a fellow goes to bed with me,
it isn't his big toe I want to see.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Albert Bierstadt Valley of the Yosemite painting
Albert Bierstadt Valley of the Yosemite paintingAlbert Bierstadt the oregon trail paintingThomas Kinkade country living painting
was certain he was failed. He had betrayed, deceived, and defiled Miss Sally Ann in the wanton arms of O.B.G.'s hot daughter -- whom, however, for better or worse, he had once again found himself impotent with and who, ungrateful as always, had laughed at him in the morning when he'd offered to raise her wage. He'd had no choice then but to discipline such uppitiness. And though he loved, honored, and respected his unhappy wife, he was also profoundly troubled by their reciprocal grievances, which he felt sure were justified albeit unjust. In sum, he was so utterly of two minds about himself and his connections with things that he seemed rather a pair of humans in a single skin: the one energetic, breezy, optimistic, self-assured, narrow-minded, hospitable, out-going, quick-thinking, belligerent, and strong; the other apathetic, abject, pessimistic, self-despising, indulgent, rude, introspective, complaisant, uncouth, feckless, and flabby. He had lost faith initially in t
was certain he was failed. He had betrayed, deceived, and defiled Miss Sally Ann in the wanton arms of O.B.G.'s hot daughter -- whom, however, for better or worse, he had once again found himself impotent with and who, ungrateful as always, had laughed at him in the morning when he'd offered to raise her wage. He'd had no choice then but to discipline such uppitiness. And though he loved, honored, and respected his unhappy wife, he was also profoundly troubled by their reciprocal grievances, which he felt sure were justified albeit unjust. In sum, he was so utterly of two minds about himself and his connections with things that he seemed rather a pair of humans in a single skin: the one energetic, breezy, optimistic, self-assured, narrow-minded, hospitable, out-going, quick-thinking, belligerent, and strong; the other apathetic, abject, pessimistic, self-despising, indulgent, rude, introspective, complaisant, uncouth, feckless, and flabby. He had lost faith initially in t
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