Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam hand

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could do that, you could do that, certainly,' said Silverfish. 'But he might not be in a position to listen. He disappeared a couple of years ago.'
. . . then when I find something to write with, thought Detritus, I have to find someone teach me how write . . .
'Disappeared? Howwas an idiot!'
'Oh, not an idiot,' said Silverfish, picking up a billiard ball that had miraculously escaped the detonations. 'Just so sharp he kept cutting himself, as my granny used to say. Lightning lemons! Where's the sense in that? It was as bad as his "voices-in-the-sky" machine. I told him: Leonard, I said, what are wizards for, eh? There's ?' said Cuddy.'We think,' said Silverfish, leaning closer, 'that he found a way of making himself invisible.''Really?''Because,' said Silverfish, nodding conspiratorially, 'no-one's seen him.''Ah,' said Cuddy. 'Er. This is just off of the top of my head, you understand, but I suppose he couldn't . . . just have gone somewhere where you couldn't see him?''Nah, that wouldn't be like old Leonard. He wouldn't disappear. But he might vanish.''Oh.''He was a bit . . . unhinged, if you know what I mean. Head too full of brains. Ha, I remember he had this idea once of getting lightning out of lemons! Hey, Sendivoge, you remember Leonard and his lightning lemons?'Sendivoge made little circular motions alongside his head with one finger. 'Oh, yes. "If you stick copper and zinc rods in the lemon, hey presto, you get tame lightning." Man

Leroy Neiman Femlin

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'Trolls going one way, dwarfs going the other?' said Carrot.
'Now there's a parade you don't want to miss,' said Nobby.
'What's wrong?' said Angua.
Carrot waved his with valuable minerals in them and the silicon-based lifeform known as trolls are, basically, rocks with valuable minerals in them. In the wild they also spend most of the daylight hours dormant, and that's not a situation a rock containing valuable minerals needs to be in when there are dwarfs around. And dwarfs hate trolls because, after you've just found an interesting seam of valuable minerals, you don't like rocks that suddenly stand up and tear your arm off because you've just stuck a pick-axe in their ear.hands vaguely in the air. 'Oh, dear. It's going to be dreadful. We must do something.''Dwarfs and trolls get along like a house on fire,' said Nobby. 'Ever been in a burning house, miss?'Sergeant Colon's normally red face had gone pale pink. He buckled on his sword belt and picked up his truncheon.'Remember,' he said, 'let's be careful out there.''Yeah,' said Nobby, 'let's be careful to stay in here.' To understand why dwarfs and trolls don't like each other you have to go back a long way.They get along like chalk and cheese. Very like chalk and cheese, really. One is organic, the other isn't, and also smells a bit cheesy. Dwarfs make a living by smashing up rocks

John William Waterhouse Waterhouse Narcissus

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When I married Mr.. Ogg, we had three dozen oysters at our wedding feast. Mind you, they didn’t all work.”
“And I like the way they give us all a bit o’ the wedding
cake in a little bag,” said Granny.
“Right. You know, they says, if you puts a bit under your
pillow, you dream of “Cake’s nice,” said Granny, “but. .. right now . . . don’t know why ... what I could really do with, Gytha, right now ... is a sweet.”
The last word hung in the evening air like the echo of a gunshot.
Nanny stopped. Her hand flew to her pocket, where the usual bag of fluff-encrusted your future husb ...” Nanny Ogg’stongue tripped over itself.She stopped, embarrassed, which was unusual in an Ogg.“It’s all right,” said Granny “I don’t mind.”“Sorry, Esme.”“Everything happens somewhere. I know. I know.Everything happens somewhere. So it’s all the same in theend.”“That’s very continuinuinuum thinking, Esme.”303Terry Pratehett

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Greebo had spent an her dress and kicking the third elf just under the knee.
Shawn saw a flash of metal as her foot retreated under the silk again.
She elbowed the screaming elf aside, trotted into the doorway, and came back with a crossbow.
“Shawn,” she said, “which one hurt you?”
“All of them,” said Shawn, weakly. “But the one fighting Greebo stabbed Diamanda.”
The elf pulled Greebo off his face. Green-blue irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.Shawn dived sideways as Greebo went off like a Claymore mine.“Don’t worry about him,” said Magrat dreamily, as the elf flailed at the maddened cat. “He’s just a big softy.”She drew a knife out of the folds of her dress, turned, and stabbed the elf behind her. It wasn’t an accurate thrust, but it didn’t have to be. Not with an iron blade.She completed the movement by daintily raising the hem of

Paul Cezanne Still Life with Soup Tureen

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. That’s very true. And you ever seen ‘em Morris dancing? “Muff to make you hang up your hanky.”
“What, Morris dancing in a city?”
“Well, down in Sto Helit, anyway. Bunch o’ soft wizards and merchants. I watched ‘em a whole hour and there wasn’t even a groinin’.”
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“Swish city bastards. Comin’ up here, takin’ our jobs...”
“Don’t be daft. They don’t know what a proper job is.”
The jug glugged, but with a deeper tone, suggesting that it contained a lot of emptiness.
“Bet they’ve the sky and the hills.”
Jason Ogg wrinkled his brows. They were always pretty wrinkled anyway, whenever he was dealing with the com-plexities of the world. Only when it came to iron did he know exactly what to do. But he held up a wavering finger and tried to count his fellow thespians. Given that the jug was now empty, this was an effort. There seemed, on aver-age, to be seven other people. But he had a vague, nagging feeling that something wasn’t never been up to the armpit—““The point is. The point is. The point. The point is. Hah. All laughin’ at decent rude artisans, eh? I mean. I mean. I mean. What’s it all about? I mean. I mean. I mean.Play’s all about some mechanical. . . rude buggers makin’ apig’s ear out of doin’ a play about a bunch of lords andladies—“A chill in the air, sharp as icicles . ..“It needs something else.”“Right. Right.”“A mythic element.”“Right. My point. My point. My point. Needs a plot they can go home whistlin’. Exactly.”“So it should be done here, in the open air. Open to

Juan Gris Guitar on a Table

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Nanny. “It’s going to be on Midsummer’s
Eve.”
“It’s got to be special, on Midsummer’s Eve,” said Jason
Ogg.
The door to the smithy had been bolted shut. With-
in were the eight members of the Lancre Morris Men,
six times winners of the Fifteen Mountains All-Comers
Morris Championship,* now getting to grips with a new art
form.
“I feel a right twit,” said Bestiality Carter, Lancre’s
only baker. “A dress on! I just hope my wife doesn’t see
me!”
“Says here,” said Jason Ogg, his enormous forefinger
hesitantly tracing its way along the page, “that it’s a beaut-i-
ful story of the love of the Queen of the Fairies—that’s you,
Bestiality—“
“—thank you
“Why can’t we do a Morris like normal?” said Obidiah
Carpenter the tailor.*
“Morris is for every day,” said Jason. “We got to dp something cultural. This come all the way from Ankh-Morpork.”
“We could do the Stick and Bucket Dance,” volunteered Baker the very much—““—for a mortal man. Plus a hum-our-rus int-ter-lude with Comic Artisans...”l Three times outright, once after eleven hours extra time, and twice when the other finalists ran away. 83Terry Pratchett“What’s an artisan?” said Weaver the thatcher.“Dunno. Type of well, I reckon.” Jason scratched his head. “Yeah. They’ve got ‘em down on the plains. I repaired a pump for one once. Artisan wells.”“What’s comic about them?”“Maybe people fall down ‘em in a funny way?”

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile

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everything! Something broke!"
"It must be the steel they make here," said Urn. "The link pins on-”
"That doesn't matter now," said Simony.
The flat tones of his voice made Urn follow the eyes of the crowd.
There was another iron turtle there-a proper model of a turtle, mounted on a sort of open gridwork of metal bars in which a "There's more of them than there are of us," said Simony.
"Well, haven't there always been? There's not mag­ically more of them than there are of us just because they've got Brutha, are there?"
Simony grabbed his arm.couple of inquisitors were even now lighting a fire. And chained to the back of the turtle-"Who's that?""Brutha.""What?""I don't know what happened. He hit Vorbis, or didn't hit him. Or something. Enraged him anyway. Vorbis stopped the ceremony, right there and then."Urn glanced at the deacon. Not Cenobiarch yet, so uncrowned. Among the Iams and bishops standing uncertainly in the open doorway, his bald head gleamed in the morning light."Come on, then," said Urn."Come on what?""We can rush the steps and save him!"