Then, Tell, since at a hundred yards thou canst Bring down the apple from the tree, thou shalt Approve they skill before me. Take they bow – Thou hast it there at hand – and make thee ready To shoot an apple from the stripling’s … Continue reading About Apples, and Snarks, and Stories
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walker, The Colour Purple
Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Line
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Yes, I enjoy a salad.
Henry our Cat
Yes, well, maybe I should be listening to somebody else instead:
“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.”
Neil Gaiman, Stardust
Henry is having the last word.
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“No one was badly hurt by the fire, but it went on for some hours, doing a fair amount of damage in the process.”
“The instigator of the fire lurked on a nearby hilltop and watched the blaze. He was tall, thin, and a Duke of Hell. It was the last thing that needed to be done before his return to the nether regions, and he had done it.”
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
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the neighbour’s cat keeps watching us.
“He lurks under the bushes at the end of the garden. A shadowy figure, hunched and squat, an Olympic-grade lurker.”
with apologies to Mssrs Gaiman and Pratchett
“because everywhere I go, I hold up traffic”
from Neil Gaiman / Terry Pratchett: Good Omens
WQW #32: Transportation: Cars or Trucks
“There’s one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.”
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman – Good Omens
And I guess that goes for sunsets, too.
This is for Paula’s new challenge: Words of Wisdom. Find a quote and illustrate it with a fitting photo. Why not join her?
If you read Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman you will know that there was a Sir Joshua Device, a Sir Humphrey Gadget, a Pietr Gizmo, a Cyrus T. Doodad and an Ella Reader Widget – they all invented “things so simple and universally useful that everyone forgot that they’d ever actually needed to be invented” and the utensils were named after them. I’m pretty sure that one of the thingies in my photos has been invented by Angus Watchamacallit, a Scottish inventor of (forgotten) renown.
Linked to One Word Sunday: Watchamacallit.
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