Wednesday, April 8, 2009

James Jacques Joseph Tissot Too Early

James Jacques Joseph Tissot Too EarlyJames Jacques Joseph Tissot Hide and SeekMartin Johnson Heade Orchids and Hummingbird
'Proper magic.' Rincewind stifled a belch.
'Oook.'
Rincewind all this levels and grades business, you know. They had sourcerers in those days. They went out in the world and found new spells and had adventures-‘
He dipped a finger in a puddle of beer and doodled a design on the stained, scratched timber of the table.
One of Rincewind's tutors had said of him that 'to call his understanding of magical theory abysmal is to leave no suitable word to describe his grasp of its practice.' This had always puzzled him. He objected to the fact that you had to be good at magic to be stared into the frothy remnants of his last beer, and then, with extreme care in case the top of his head fell off, leaned down and poured some into a saucer for the Luggage. It was lurking under the table, which was a relief. It usually embarrassed him in bars by sidling up to drinkers and terrorising them into feeding it crisps.He wondered fuzzily where his train of thought had been derailed.'Where was I?''Oook,' the Librarian hinted.'Yeah.' Rincewind brightened. 'They didn't have

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