all night long. Zombie churches with AA meetings for zombies, down in the basements, every Thursday night."
"Yeah?" Batu said. "Zombie bars too? Where they serve zombies Zombies?"
Eric said, "My friend Dave went down once, when we were in high school, on a dare. He used to tell us all kinds of stories."
"You ever go?" Batu said, pointing with his empty shovel at the narrow, crumbly path that went down into the Chasm.
"I never went to college. I've never even been to Canada," Eric said. "Not even when I was in high school, to buy beer."
All night the zombies came out of the Chasm, holding handfuls of snow. They carried the snow across the road, and into the parking lot, and left it there. Batu was back in the closet, sending off faxes, and Eric was glad about this, that Batu couldn't see what the zombies were up to.
Zombies came into the store, tracking in salt and melting snow. Eric hated mopping up after the zombies.
He sat on the counter, facing the road, ho
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25 November 2008
Magic for Beginners
The Haunted Pajamas
I tried to think of something they were as red as, but somehow I couldn't fetch the idea. I thought of red ink and blood and fireworks, but they didn't seem to be up to them at all. And a big, velvety petal that dropped from one of the crimson roses just seemed brown beside them.
And yet, dash it, I knew they reminded me of something, you know; I knew they must.
"They remind me" I began, and had to pause idea balked, you know. "They remind me of of Jenkins, what do they remind me of?"
"Of him, sir," replied Jenkins promptly.
"Eh?"
"Old Memphis Tuffles, sir," explained Jenkins darkly. "I saw him once in a opera, and he was that red."
"By Jove!" I said thoughtfully, and fell to watching the little spider. It was dropping a life-line or something down to the pajamas.
"But they say he ain't always red," Jenkins con tinued mysteriously. "A lady as is in the palmistry and car
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08 November 2008
Japanese Prints
Scene from a Drama
The daimyo and the courtesan Compliment each other.
He invites her to walk out through the maples, She half refuses, hiding fear in her heart.
Far in the shadow The daimyo's attendant waits, Nervously fingering his sword.
A Woman in Winter Costume
She is like the great rains That fall over the earth in winter-time.
Wave on wave her heavy robes collapse In green torrents Lashed with slaty foam.
Downward the sun strikes amid them And enkindles a lone flower; A violet iris standing yet in seething pools of grey.
A Pedlar
Gaily he offers Packets of merchandise.
He is a harlequin of illusions, His nimble features Skip into smiles, like rainbows, Cheating the villagers.
But in his heart all the while is another knowledge, The sorrow of the bleakness of the long wet winter night.
Kiyonobu and Kiyomasu
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
I. A Scandal in Bohemia
II. The Red-headed League
III. A Case of Identity
IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
V. The Five Orange Pips
VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip
VII. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band
IX. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
X. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
XI. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
XII. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana
An ancient Indian text on human sexual behavior, widely considered to be the standard work on love in the Sanskrit literature. The text was written by Vatsyayana. The author is believed to have lived sometime between the 1st to 6th centuries A.D, probably during the Gupta period.
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