Wednesday, March 11, 2009

George Frederick Watts Watts Hope

George Frederick Watts Watts HopeAlbert Bierstadt In the MountainsJohannes Vermeer The Guitar Player
anything. The food was there to start with and wasn't there later, so presumably something must have happened in between. Mort got the feeling that Death wasn't really used to all this but was doing it to put him at his ease, THEY DO IT ALL THEMSELVES, he said. THERE'S NO MAGIC. PEOPLE CANT SEE ME, THEY SIMPLY WONT ALLOW THEMSELVES TO DO IT. UNTIL IT'S TIME, OF COURSE. WIZARDS CAN SEE ME, AND CATS. BUT YOUR AVERAGE HUMAN . . . NO, NEVER. He blew a smoke ring at the sky, and added, STRANGE BUT TRUE.like an elderly bachelor uncle who has been landed with his is terrified of getting it wrong.The other diners didn't take much notice, even when Death leaned back and lit a rather fine pipe. Someone with smoke curling out of their eye sockets takes some ignoring, but everyone managed it.'Is it magic?' said Mort.WHAT DO YOU THINK? said Death. AM I REALLY HERE, BOY?'Yes,' said Mort slowly. 'I . . . I've watched people. They look at you but they don't see you, I think. You do something to their minds.'Death shook his head.

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