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Wiki: "She asked for clay and started to make models: her first model, her first sculpture, was of a shoehorn, and even this was somehow imbued with a peculiar power and humour, with flowing, powerful, chunky curves reminiscent of an early Henry Moore."

01. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, 3 stars. Face blindness seeping into everything else, no follow up.
02. The Lost Mariner, 3 stars. Man can't remember anything from 1945 on, remains a pleasant person.
03. The Disembodied Lady, 3 stars. Woman loses all sense of her body/movements when not looking directly at them.
04. The Man Who Fell out of Bed, 3 stars. Man thinks he's being pranked with a cadaver leg.

Word: "But this dwelling on the past and relative hebetude towards the present – this emotional dulling of current feeling and memory – is nothing like Jimmie’s organic amnesia."

1. The condition or state of being blunt or dull; dullness, bluntness, obtuseness, lethargy.

DNF

Wiki: "The Hylleans no longer as before plotted unfriendly acts against them, but in fact themselves devised a route for the Argonauts and received as reward a great tripod of Apollo."

Wiki: "Over the blond head of the son of Aison flew a halcyon, and its shrill voice foretold that the winds would drop."

Wiki: "She had knitted socks and baby caps and afghans and mufflers and tatted yards of lace and painted china hair receivers and mustache cups."

Wiki: "Learned would not go costumed, a Gray may not; but he carried a long-nosed vizard."

Wiki: "And they’ve been intermarrying since Brian Boru was a boy."

Wiki: "If it’s Zouave, I’m damned if I’ll go in the Troop."

Wiki: "In a well-known news story of the day a Kimberley diamond magnate, Barney Barnato, gambled away a fortune in other people’s money and then threw himself into the sea from a boat moored off the African coast."

Wiki: "Lupin said he did not care for dominoes, and suggested a game of ‘Spoof’."

Wiki: "This evening we were like a pack of children, and played ‘consequences’."

Word: "We’re homely people, we are not swells."

1. colloq., orig. slang. A fashionably or stylishly dressed person; hence, a person of good social position, a highly distinguished person.

2. transf. One who is distinguished or eminent in achievement; one who is very clever or good at something.

Wiki: "... Carrie is not above putting a button on a shirt, mending a pillow-case, or practising the ‘Sylvia Gavotte’ on our new cottage piano (on the three years’ system), manufactured by W. Bilkson (in small letters), from Collard and Collard (in very large letters)."

Wiki: "The lonely wayfarer shrank within himself at the horrid clamor and clapper-clawing; eyed the den of discord askance; and hurried on his way, rejoicing, if a bachelor, in his celibacy."

1. To claw or scratch with the open hand and nails; to beat, thrash, drub. (Jamieson says ‘To fight at arm's length, to strike a blow as a spider at a fly’.)

Wiki: "A miserable horse, whose ribs were as articulate as the bars of a gridiron, stalked about a field, where a thin carpet of moss, scarcely covering the ragged beds of pudding-stone, tantalized and balked his hunger..."

Wiki: "‘We wanted Andras to have almost a Judderman, creepy quality,’ adds Steve in reference to a character in a TV advert for Metz."


Metz - Judderman (2000, UK) by The Hall of Advertising

Wiki: "So I was really keen to find a house that felt almost archetypally suburban, like a distillation of all those ideas we have of Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells."

25. Anonymous - Desuetude, 3 stars. Fun facts, and the holidays creep earlier every year.
26. Anna Alice Chapin - The Christmas Ghost, 4 stars. Woman confesses to friends why she broke off her past engagement, a ghost clears the air.
27. Stephen Leacock - Merry Christmas, 3 stars. Santa saw some shit in the war, has PTSD.

22. Robert W. Service - The Cremation of Sam McGee, 3 stars. Partner promises he'll cremate his ailing friend's body as soon as possible.
23. Amorel Sterne - Xmas, 2 stars. Woman loses two children to illness on Christmas.
24. Kate Masterson - A Cubist Christmas, 2 stars. Poem about the horrors of festive surrealist art.

Word: "And off to the right where the candles grew
Was a goglet that made you glare..."

1. A long-necked vessel for holding water, usually made of porous earthenware, so that the contents are kept cool by evaporation.

19. Anonymous - The Ravings, 2 stars. Edgar Allen Poe parody, trapped ship's crew despair of ever getting home.
20. Robert W. Chambers - Out of the Depths, 3 stars. Desperate man dines with a generous friend, gets the girl.
21. Wallace Irwin - Old Nick and Saint Nick, 2 stars. The devil steals Santa's sack and gives people the wrong gifts.

Wiki: "A poem from the Arctic Eagle of December 25, 1903 by a member of its crew during a North Pole expedition led by Anthony Fiala (1869-1950) of Brooklyn."

16. Paul Laurence Dunbar - The Haunted Oak, 2 stars. Poem from the perspective of a lynching tree.
17. Anonymous - The Anarchist's Christmas, 2 stars. Santa tosses a bomb down the chimney.
18. Hezekiah Butterworth - Camel Bells, or, The Haunted Sentry Box of San Cristobal, 2 stars. Two separate incidents of men disappearing from their night's watch, both are seen floating through the air by multiple witnesses.

Wiki: "... just as a century ago Boston people used to remind usurers of 'the devil and Tom Walker' ."

13. H.C. Dodge - Poor Jack, 3 stars. Jack-in-the-box is angry, he didn't ask to be born.
14. Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi - Christmas Wolves, 3 stars. Arrogant lord gives his gun to the wrong peasant boy.
15. Henry Beaugrand - The Werwolves, 2 stars. Colonizers swap tales about murdering native americans, werewolves don't like jesus.