Greer Gilman's Blog, page 91

Mercury and Venus

What on earth (or elsewhere) are these for?  No Googling!

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spring rain

 






 



But the lawn was a sea of white violets, and he went and mowed.

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Second-best bed

Not to cast long shadows on the party, but have any of you, my writer friends, appointed literary executors?  Is this sound legal advice?

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A Will of His Own

Happy 447th birthday to the Upstart Crow, long since a Swan.

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flipped spoon

Better?  I hate to strain your poor eyes this way...

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written in bone

Can any of you paleographers read these scrimshaw inscriptions?  Have I even got them right way up?

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Blackavised

Look who I found in the bowl of my mother's teaspoon!

He's a silver penny, 1679.

Kind of lèse majesté to lick the king, don't you think?  If not outright Saturnine.  But maybe he'd enjoy a dip in syllabub, to cool his lust-fevered brow.

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The crawl space of the House of Usher

I sit in Gothic dusk and tempest, in a crowd of shadows in my mother's house, a cobweb trailed forlornly from one ear, and contemplate my labors: all of this vast labyrinth to shovel out and sort, and my small nutshell space as well, if I want to keep any of her pretty things. Which makes: thirteen rooms, three kitchens, five bathrooms, five hallways, two attics (with madwomen), eight cellars (with minotaur), and twenty closets. Gods know how many drawers. All filled to bursting with 88 years of Stuff: hammers and antimacassars and old toys; eggshell china and upopened mathoms; plus more paper than most governments.

I despair.

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Still dreaming

"It's about them romping through this fantastical moonlit forest on wheelchairs and canes..."

The makers of the extraordinary film Shakespeare Behind Bars (in which a company of inmates—murderers and rapists—play The Tempest, wrestling with the light) are working on a second project.  They hope to film Still Dreaming at a home for retired actors—shades of Slings & Arrows!—to explore the persistence of art.  "Whát I do is me:   for that I came."

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Hey, where's the ding?

Cute!  As negothick   said, It has my fingerprints all over it.

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