2008年12月23日星期二

Pissarro The Artist's Garden at Eragny

Pissarro The Artist's Garden at EragnyRobinson House in VirginiaRobinson On the CanalCassatt Girl with a Banjo
didn't realize that this was because of an old drinking game that Ford learned to play in the hyperspace ports that served the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta. The game was not unlike the Earth called Indian Wrestling, and was played like this: Two contestants would sit either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them.effects of Janx spirit is to depress telepsychic power. As soon as a predetermined quantity had been consumed, the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological. Ford Prefect usually played to lose. Between them would be placed a bottle of Janx Spirit (as immortalized in that ancient Orion mining song "Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit"). Each of the two contestants would then concentrate their will on the bottle and attempt to tip it and pour spirit into the glass of his opponent - who would then have to drink it. The bottle would then be refilled. The ga would be played again. And again. Once you started to lose you would probably keep losing, because one of the

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