Thursday, November 27, 2008

Matisse Interior with Phonograph

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into the billowing clouds of steam. "Just seen him! And guess what he's doing? Snogging Victoire!"

He gazed up at the adults, evidently disappointed by the lack of reaction.

   "Our Teddy! Teddy Lu"He already comes round for dinner about four times a week," said Harry "Why don't we just invite him to live with is and have done with pin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked teddy what he was doing --"

"You interrupted them?" said Ginny. "You are so like Ron --"

   "-- and he said he'd come to see her off! And then he told me to go away. He's snogging her!" James added as though worried he had not made himself clear.

   "Oh, it would be lovely if they got married!" whispered Lily ecstatically. "Teddy would really be part of the family then!"

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Aivazovsky Moonlit Seascape With Shipwreck

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Xenophilius had dapper at Bill and by comparison.

 "What? What is it? Who are you? What do you want?" he cried in a high-pitched, querulous voice, looking first at Hermione, then at Ron, and finally at Harry, upon which his mouth fell open in a perfect, comical O.

 "Hello, Mr. Lovegood," said Harry, holding out his hand, "I'm Harry, Harry Potter."

 Xenophilius did not take Harry's hand, although the eye that was not pointing inward at his nose slid straight to the scar on Harry's forehead.

 "Would it be okay if we came in?" asked Harry. "There's something we'd like to ask you."

 "I . . . I'm not sure that's advisable," whispered Xenophilius, He swallowed and cast a quick look around the . "Rather a shock . . . My word . . . I . . . I'm afraid I don't really think I ought to ---"

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Edmund Blair Leighton The End of The Song painting

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inquiry. "And, baba, listen, it is that Gibreel. Gibreel Farishta, who the papers say . . ." her voice trailed off and she chewed, fretfully, at the nails on her left hand.
"Where is he?"
"What to do, I was afraid," Kasturba cried. "I told him, in your father's study, he is waiting there only. But maybe it is better you don't go. Should I call the police? Baapu ré, that such a thing."
_No. Don't call. I'll go see what he wants_.
Gibreel was sitting on Changez's bed with the old lamp in his hands. He was wearing a dirty white kurta-pajama outfit and looked like a man who had been sleeping rough. His eyes were unfocused, lightless, dead. "Spoono," he said wearily, waving the lamp in the direction

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Edward Hopper A Woman in the Sun painting

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wrong? We don't even know what it is. So what I thought was, you can either break your heart trying to work it all out, or you can go sit on a mountain, because that's where all the truth went, believe it or not, it just upped and ran away from these cities where even the stuff under our feet is all made up, a lie, and it hid up there in the thin thin air where the liars don't dare come after it in case their brains explode. It's up there all right. I've been there. Ask me." She fell asleep; he carried her to the bed.
After the news of his death in the plane crash reached her, she had tormented herself by inventing him: by speculating, that is to say, about her lost lover. He had been the first man she'd slept with in more than five years: no small figure in her, her instincts having warned her that to do otherwise might be to be absorbed by it; that it was for her, would always be, a big subject, a whole dark continent to