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the bittern’s distant boom
Bittern: a large marshbird of the heron family, which is typically smaller than a heron, with brown streaked plumage. The larger kinds are noted for the deep booming call of the male in the breeding season.
I left him, tongueless, in Tiger’s world.
“Return it to him,” she said, in the voice of the night. “He has no quarrel with me now.”
Ewww
Spider had been a part of him once.
Spider
Haha simile but real
ROSIE
Rosie, when confronted with an unexpected spider in a bathtub,
What story did I recently read with a spider in a bathtub scene ?
pale woman in the moonlight,
finally, to add insult to injury, you force me to believe in ghosts.”
Between Tiger and Grahame Coats. They still need to collaborate.
Haha simile and actual.
CHARLIE
No longer Fat Charlie.
SPIDER
a seven-legged clay spider sat on the back of his fingers, tasting the air.
It was like bookkeeping, he thought:
Simile powerful
We’re more like two halves of a starfish.
Simile powerful see p. 94.
MAEVE LIVINGSTONE
Haha
Her hand crept into his. She said, “Where are we going now, Morris?” He told her. “Oh. Well, that will be a pleasant change,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to go there.” And, hand in hand, they went.
CHARLIE
Haha simile
Daisy
Haha
Haha
Spider
“Well, it’s easy to do that stuff if you don’t care.
Haha. They’ve switched personalities. To a degree.
‘Yellow Bird,’
Haha
She had decided not to talk about the blonde ghost-woman.
Haha
“only when I was in the dark, I thought that you were helping me. That you were keeping the animal away. What happened to your face? It’s all scratched.” “It was an animal,” said Spider.
Wonderful simile Bible
patting her shoulder in a way that set Daisy’s teeth on edge.
Haha -
remember “Anyone who calls you ‘little lady’ has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.” Daisy 289
“But you’re a hero, aren’t you?” “I don’t think that’s what anyone was paying me for,” she said, a little wanly.
Pictures of Neil Gaiman in a fedora:
https://x.com/neilhimself/status/720758855999819777?lang=en
Jaunty little hat in Good Omens (novel 1990) series (2019):
https://www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/705573849090097152/very-important-good-omens-question-that-im-sure
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) was well known in a hat:
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/terry-pratchetts-hat-and-scarf-good-omens-premiere/
Some hats can only be worn if you’re willing to be jaunty,
and Charlie was up to it.
They turned together, turned in a direction that wasn’t usually there, and they walked away from the Williamstown high street.
Charlie avoided them where he could, while Spider crunched his way through them.
Haha still differences between them.
Lion and Elephant, Crocodile and Python, Rabbit and Scorpion,
All the animals that have ever been in stories. All the animals that people have dreamed of, worshipped, or placated.
What exactly do we do now?” “We sing to them,” said Charlie, simply. “What?” “It’s how we fix things. I figured it out.
Tiger.
a small man, with lemon yellow gloves and a pencil-thin moustache and no fedora hat to cover his thinning hair.
Charlie filled his lungs, and he began to sing.
the building blocks beneath the real,
the truths beneath the way things are;
totem creatures
