Thursday, March 12, 2009

Pierre Auguste Renoir By the Water

Pierre Auguste Renoir By the WaterPierre Auguste Renoir At the ConcertPierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath
by her sorrowing relatives, had smiled at him and said he was looking a little pale.
The Disc sun was close to the horizon by the time Binky cantered wearily through the skies over Sto Lat, and Mort looked down and saw the borderland of reality. It curved away below him, a crescent of faint silver mist. He didn't know held sway and she was quite definitely dead, the duke was king and the world was proceeding sedately according to plan, whatever that was.
The point is that both realities were true.
The sort of historical event horizon was currently about twenty miles away from the city, and wasn't yet very noticeable. That's because the thrashing around like a steel hawser with the tension off, twanging backwards and forwards across reality in great destructive sweeps.
History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people

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