Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Franz Marc Affenfries

Franz Marc AffenfriesGarmash Sleeping BeautyMarc Chagall The Wedding CandlesMarc Chagall The Cattle DealerMarc Chagall Lovers in the Moonlight
clapped his spiritual hands and rubbed them together with forced enthusiasm.
‘Get a move on. Some of us have got new lives to go to,’ he said. The darkness remained inert. There was no shape, no sound. It was void, without form. The spirit of Windle Poons moved on the face of the darkness. It shook its head.’Blow this for a lark,’ it muttered.’This isn’t right at all.’ It hung around for a while and then, see the point of believing, of going around saying, ‘O great table, without whom we are as naught’.
Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as
a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore thebecause there didn’t seem anything else for it, headed for the only home it had ever known. It was a home he’d occupied for one hundred and thirty years. It wasn’t expecting him back and put up a lot of resistance. You either had to be very determined or very powerful to overcome that sort of thing, but Windle Poons had been a wizard for more than a century. Besides, it was like breaking into your own house, the old familiar property that you’d lived in for years. You knew where the metaphorical window was that didn’t shut properly.In short, Windle Poons went back to Windle Poons.Wizards don’t believe in gods in the same way that most people don’t find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they’re there, they know they’re there for a purpose, they’d probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn’t

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