Juan Gris Man in the CafeJuan Gris Landscape with Houses at CeretGeorge Bellows Club Night
These are the little waiting-rooms where visitors are handed on to the next guide. And here and there, set high in the tunnel roof over the more ingenious traps, are observation windows, because guards like a good laugh as much as anyoneit . . ."
The city of Ephebe surrounded them. Dogs barked. Somewhere a cat yowled. There was that general susurration of small comfortable sounds that shows that, out there, a lot of people are living their lives.
And then a door burst open down the street and there was the cracking noise of a quite large wine amphora being broken over someone's head.
A skinny old man in a toga picked himself up from the cobbles where he had else.All of this was totally lost on Brutha, who padded amiably along the tunnels and corridors without really thinking much about it, and at last pushed open the gate into the late evening air.It was fragrant with the scent of flowers. Moths whirred through the gloom."What do philosophers look like?" said Brutha, "When they're not having a bath, I mean.""They do a lot of thinking," said Om. "Look for someone with a strained expression.""That might just mean constipation.""Well, so long as they're philosophical about
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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