Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile

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'Dolomitic conglomerates! Get chore dolomitic conglomerates heeyar! Manganese nodules! Manganese nodules! Get them while they're . . . uh . , . nodule-shaped.' He hesitated a bit, and then rallied. 'Pumice! Pumice! Tufa a dollar! Roast limestones—'
A few trolls wandered up to stare at him.
'You, sir, you look . .'Lovely and fresh! Just like mother used to hew!'
'Yeah, and there's bloody quartz all through dis granite,' said another troll, towering over Dibbler. 'Clogs the arteries, quartz.'
He slammed the rock back on the tray. The . hungry,' said Dibbler, grinning widely at the smallest troll. 'Why not try our shale on a bun? Mmm-mmm! Taste that alluvial deposit, know what I mean?'C. M. O. T. Dibbler had a number of bad points, but species prejudice was not one of them. He liked anyone who had money, regardless of the colour and shape of the hand that was proffering it. For Dibbler believed in a world where a sapient creature could walk tall, breathe free, pursue life, liberty and happiness, and step out towards the bright new dawn. If they could be persuaded to gobble something off Dibbler's hot-food tray at the same time, this was all to the good.The troll inspected the tray suspiciously, and lifted up a bun.'Urrh, yuk,' he said, 'it's got all ammonites in it! Yuk!''Pardon?' said Dibbler.'Dis shale,' said the troll, 'is stale.'

Paul Gauguin Nave Nave Moe

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'There isn't any it to be wrong!'
'Right, right. Not that it would be,' said Gaspode, adding hurriedly, 'even if there was. Everyone likes Corporal Carrot.'
'They do, don't they,' said Angua, her hackles settling down. 'He's very . . . likeable.'
'Even Big Fido only bit his hand when Carrot tried to pat him.'
'Who's Big Fido?'
'Chief Barker of the Dog Guild.'
'Dogs have got a 'Never you mind. Big Fido . . . he's a friend o' mine.'
'Biting a man's arm for patting you doesn't sound very friendly.'
'Yeah? Last man who tried to pat Big Fido, they only Guild? Dogs? Pull one of the other ones, it's got bells on—''No, straight up. Scavenging rights, sunbathing spots, night-time barking duty, breeding rights, howling rotas . . . the whole bone of rubber.''Dog Guild,' snarled Angua sarcastically. 'Oh, yeah.''Chase a rat up a pipe in the wrong street and call me a liar. 'S'good job for you I'm around, else you could get into big trouble. There's big trouble for a dog in this town who ain't a Guild member. It's lucky for you,' said Gaspode, 'that you met me.''I suppose you're a big ma—dog in the Guild, yes?''Ain't a member,' said Gaspode smugly.'How come you survive, then?''I can think on my paws, me. Anyway, Big Fido leaves me alone. I got the Power.''What power?'

Paul Klee Zitronen

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'Death who?'
There was a chill in the air. Beano waited. Edward was frantically patting his face . . . well, what until recently had been his face.IT'S JUST THAT IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT I SHOULD BE MORE OF A PEOPLE PERSON.
'I mean, why ? I thought we were getting on really well.
It's very hard to make friends in my job. In your job too, I suppose.'
BREAK IT TO THEM GENTLY, AS IT WERE.
'One minute walking along, the next minute dead. Why?'
THINK OF IT MORE AS BEING . . . DIMENSIONALLY DIS-ADVANTAGED.
The shade of Beano the clown turned to Death.
'What are you talking about?'I WONDER . . . CAN WE START AGAIN? I DON'T SEEM TO HAVE THE HANG OF THIS.'Sorry?' said Beano.'I'm s-orry!' moaned Edward, 'I meant it for the best!'Beano watched his murderer drag his . . . the . . . body away.'Nothing personal, he says,' he said. 'I'm glad it wasn't anything personal. I should hate to think I've just been killed because it was personal.'

Thomas Kinkade London

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through your eyes and knows what you’ve become.
“And there will be none to help,” said the Queen. She was closer now, her eyes pinpoints of hatred. “No charity for the mad old change can’t learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. You’re right. I’m older. You’ve lived longer than me but I’m older than you. And better’n you. And, madam, that ain’t hard.”
The Queen struck wildly.
The rebounded force of the mental blow knocked Nanny Ogg to her knees. Granny Weatherwax blinked.
“A good one,” she croaked. “But still I stand, and stillwoman. You’ll see what you have to eat to stay alive. And we’ll be with you all the time inside your head, just to remind you. You could have been the great one, there was so much you could have done. And inside you’ll know it, and you’ll plead all the dark night long for the silence of the elves.”The Queen wasn’t expecting it. Granny Weatherwax’s hand shot out, pieces of rope falling away from it, and slapped her across the face.“You threaten me with that?” she said. “Me? Who am becoming old?”The elf woman’s hand rose slowly to the livid mark across her cheek. The elves raised their bows, waiting for an order.“Go back,” said Granny. “You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don’t die can’t live. What don’t live can’t change. What don’t

Julien Dupre Returning From the Fields

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thing?”
Ridcully lifted the small cage off his head. There was a small treadmill in it, in a complex network of glass rods. A couple of feeding bowls were visible. And there was a small, hairy and currently quite wet mouse.
“Oh, it’s was a pattern of fine silver lines, constantly moving, as though everything was coated with fil-igree. Except where there was iron. There the lines were crushed and tight and bent. There, the whole world was invisible. Iron distorted the world. Keep away from iron.
She slipped out of bed, using the edge of the blanket to grasp the door handle, and opened the door.
Shawn Ogg was standing very nearly to attention.
Currently he was guarding the castle and Seeing How Long He Could Stand On One Leg.
203something some of the young wizards came up with,” said Ridcully diffidently “I said I’d ... try it out for them. The mouse hair rubs against the glass rods and there’s sparks, don’t’y’know, and ... and ...”Granny Weatherwax looked at the Archchancellor’s somewhat grubby hair and raised an eyebrow.“My word,” she said. “What will they think of next?”“Don’t really understand how it works, Stibbons is the man for this sort of thing, I thought I’d help them out...”“Lucky you were going bald, eh?”In the darkness of her sickroom Diamanda opened her eyes, if they were her eyes. There was a pearly sheen to them. The song was as yet only on the threshold of hearing. And the world was different. A small part of her mind was still Diamanda, and looked out through the mists of enchantment. The world

Mark Spain Night Light

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Granny rubbed her hands together in grim satisfaction.
“I think I’ve got it sorted,” she said.
She blinked.
She pinched the bridge of her nose.
“What did I just say?” she said.
“Uh. You said Yes. The castle. I’m me, you’re you, Gytha’s upstairs with Magrat. That’s right.” She focused on the king. “Just a bit of ... of overtiredness there. Nothing to worry about. Nothing to worry about at all.”
Nanny Ogg looked doubtfully at Magrat’s preparation.you thought you’d got it sorted,” said the king.Granny Weatherwax blinked.“That’s right,” she said. “I said that. Yes. And I’m in the castle, aren’t I? Yes.”“Are you all right. Mistress Weatherwax?” said the king, his voice taut with sudden worry.“Fine, fine. Fine. In the castle. And the children are all right, too?”“Sorry?”She blinked again.“What?”“You don’t look well...”134LQRQ6 ft^O LftD/£6Granny screwed up her face and shook her head. “

Mark Spain Timeless Beauty

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Right. None at all. Even a hunter, a good hunter, can feel for the quarry. That’s what makes ‘em a good hunter. Elves aren’t like that. They’re cruel for fun, and they can’t understand things like mercy. They can’t understand what nasty, cruel little bas-tards they are. Style. That’s what people remember. They remember the glamour. All the rest of it, all the truth of it, becomes . .. old wives’ tales.”
“Magrat’s never said anything about them.”
Granny hesitated.
“Magrat doesn’t know too much about elves,” she said. “Hah. She ain’t even a young wife yet. They’re not some-thing that gets talked about a lot these days. It’s not good to talk about them. It’s that anything apart from themselves might have feelings. They laugh a lot, especially if they’ve caught a lonely human or a dwarf or a troll. Trolls might be made out of rock, your majesty, but I’m telling you that a troll is your brother com-pared to elves. In the head, I mean.”“But why don’t I know all this?”“Glamour. Elves are beautiful. They’ve got,” she spat the word, “style. Beauty. Grace. That’s what matters. If cats looked like frogs we’d realize

Mark Spain Cordoba

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Granny Weatherwax stood back, and turned around.
“Knock it off. I ain’t trying to stop you. Go on.”
Magenta-shading-to-Violet shaded to pink.
“Er ... I never got the hang of the psycho-thingy ...”
“Oh, dear. Well, just let’s see what the rest can do ...
Who’re you, girl?”“Go on, then. Try.”
Agnes concentrated.
“Oh, deary, deary me,” said Granny. “And my hat’s still on. Show them, Gytha.”
Nanny Ogg sighed, picked up a piece of fallen branch, and hurled it at Granny’s hat. Granny caught the stick in mid-air.
“But, but—you said we had to use magic—“ Amanita began.
“No, I didn’t,” said Granny.“Amanita, ma’am.”“Such a pretty name. Let’s see what you can do.”Amanita looked around nervously.“I, er, don’t think I can while you’re watching me—“ she began.“That’s a shame. What about you, on the end?”“Agnes Nitt,” said Agnes, who was much faster on the uptake than the other two and saw that there was no point in pushing Perdita.

Cao Yong THE VISION BEYOND

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l speed. Something was coming out of the circle, a white dot growing bigger and bigger.

He knew he’d aimed the bow. But it was whirled out of his hands as the thing struck, and suddenly there was only the sensation of—
l peace.

And the brief remembrance of pain.
William Scrope died.
William Scrope looked through his hands at the crushed bracken. The reason that it was crushed was that his own body was sprawled upon it.
His newly “Yes?”
IF YOU WOULD PLEASE STEP THIS WAY.deceased eyes surveyed the landscape.There are no delusions for the dead. Dying is like wak-ing up after a really good party, when you have one or two seconds of innocent freedom before you recollect all the things you did last night which seemed so logical and hilari-ous at the time, and then you remember the really amazing thing you did with a lampshade and two balloons, which had them in stitches, and now you realize you’re going to have to look a lot of people in the eye today and you’re sober now and so are they but you can both remember.“Oh,” he said.The landscape flowed around the stones. It was all so obvious now, when you saw it from the outside ...Obvious. No walls, only doors. No edges, only comers—WILLIAM SCROPE.
“Are you a hunter?”
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Berthe Morisot The Harbor at Lorient

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sky was blue. The sun wasn't high enough yet to turn it into Omnia's normal copper bowl.
Brutha turned his head again, towards the sun. It was about a width above the horizon, although if Didactylos's theories about the"There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing."
He was aware of a small voice in his head, too faint yet to distinguish words.
"Justice?" said Vorbis. The idea seemed to enrage him. He spun around to the crowd of bishops. "Did you hear him? There will be justice? Om has judged! Through me! This is speed of light were correct, it was really setting, thousands of years in the future.It was eclipsed by the head of Vorbis."Hot yet, Brutha?" said the deacon."Warm.""It will get warmer."There was a disturbance in the crowd. Someone was shouting. Vorbis ignored it."Nothing you want to say?" he said. "Can't you manage even a curse? Not even a curse?""You never heard Om," said Brutha. "You never believed. You never, ever heard his voice. All you heard were the echoes inside your own mind.""Really? But I am the Cenobiarch and you are going to burn for treachery and heresy," said Vorbis. "So much for Om, perhaps?"

Salvador Dali Dali at the Age of Six

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The Library of Ephebe was a furnace. The flames burned blue where the melted copper roof dripped on to the shelves.
All libraries, arms beat out the flames, pulled scrolls off the shelves, and stuffed them into a sack. When the sack was full, it knuckled back into the middle of the room . . . and vanished, with another pop.
This has nothing to do with the story.
Nor does the fact that, some time later, scrolls thought to have been destroyed in the Great Ephebian Library Fire turned up in remarkably good condition in the Library of Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork.
But it's nice to know, even so.everywhere, are connected by the bookworm holes in space created by the strong spacetime distortions found around any large collections of books.Only a very few librarians learn the secret, and there are inflexible rules about making use of the fact. Because it amounts to time travel, and time travel causes big problems.But if a library is on fire, and down in the history books as having been on fire . . .There was a small pop, utterly unheard among the crackling of the bookshelves, and a figure dropped out of nowhere on to a small patch of unburned floor in the middle of the Library.It looked ape-like, but it moved in a very purposeful way. Long simian

Francisco de Goya The Parasol

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sensible, man. You were a soldier. This is a desert. You crossed a few in your time.
And you survive by learning about them. There's whole tribes that know how to live in the worst kinds of desert. if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
You couldn't get that on a banner. But the desert looked better already.
Fri'it set out.
It was a small mule and Brutha had long legs; if he'd made the effort he could have remained standing and let the mule trot out from underneath.Licking water off the shady sides of dunes, that sort of thing . . . They think it's home. Put 'em in a vegetable garden and they'd think you were mad.The memory stole over him: a desert is what you think it is. And now, you can think clearly . . .There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large,

Pierre Auguste Renoir Dance in the City

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example, a chartered accountant. It was missing links all the way to the top.
"I can't go asking the-” Brutha hesitated. Even the thought of talking to the Cenobiarch frightened him into silence. "I can't ask anyone to ask the High Cenobiarch to come and talk to a tortoise!"
"Turn into a . He comes as an eagle, or a lion, or a mighty bull. There's a statue in the Great Temple. It's seven cubits high. It's got bronze on it and everything. It's trampling infidels. You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. It's got horns of real gold. Where I used to live there was a statue one cubit high in the next village and that was a bull too. So that's how I know you're not the Great God"­-holy horns-"Om.
The tortoise subsided.mud leech and wither in the fires of retribution!" screamed the tortoise."There's no need to curse," said Brutha.The tortoise bounced up and down furiously."That wasn't a curse! That was an order! I am the Great God Om!"Brutha blinked.Then he said, "No you're not. I've seen the Great God Om," he waved a hand making the shape of the holy horns, conscientiously, "and he isn't tortoiseshaped

Gustave Courbet The Origin of the World

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everything else and b) creative public relations. The trick relied on the laws of physics failing to spot the flaw until the journey was complete.
'In the circumstances it is best not to think about it, yuh?' said the genie.
'Like not thinking about pink rhinoceroses,' said Nijel, and gave an embarrassed laugh as they stared at him.
'It was a sort of game we had,' he said. 'You had to avoid thinking of pink rhinoceroses.' He coughed. 'I didn't say it was a particularly good game.'
He squinted down the spout again.
'No,' . He pulled himself together a bit. 'No umbrella, by the Five Moons of Nasreem. Or bits of fruit salad or olives or curly straws or ornamental monkeys, I command thee by the Seventeen Siderites of Sarudin '
'I'm not an umbrella person,' said the genie sulkily.
'It's pretty sparse in here,' said Conina, 'Why don't you furnish it?'said Conina, 'not very.''Uh,' said the genie, 'Would anyone like coffee? Some sounds? A quick game of Significant Quest?'[23]'Drink?' said Creosote.'White wine?''Foul muck.'The genie looked shocked.'Red is bad for -’ it began.'- but any port in a storm,' said Creosote hurriedly. 'Or sauterne, even. But no umbrella in it.' It dawned on the Seriph that this wasn't the way to talk to the genie
'What I don't understand,' said Nijel, 'is, if we're all in the lamp I'm holding

Juan Gris Landscape with Houses at Ceret

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'Addicted to what?'
'Life. I got hooked on it at an early age and I don't want to give it up and take it from me, this doesn't look right!'
Conina looked back at the figure surrounded by the glowing blue aura. It seemed to be looking at something in its hands.The man's icicle-hung hands had been taking the lid off the box, and the glow from the hat's octarines shone up into a pair of greedy eyes that were already heavily rimed with frost.
'Know him?' said Conina.
Rincewind shrugged. 'I've seen him around,' he said. 'He's called Larry the Snow was settling on its shoulder like really bad dandruff. Terminal dandruff. Rincewind had an instinct for these things, and he had a deep suspicion that the man had gone where shampoo would be no help at all.They sidled along a glistening wall.'There's something very strange about him,' she conceded.'You mean the way he's got his own private blizzard?''Doesn't seem to upset him. He's smiling.''A frozen grin, I'd call it.'

Pierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath

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FROM PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT IT WAS THE TEAR OF A GOD.
‘And is it?’
NO. GODS NEVER WEEP. IT IS COMMON CARBON THAT HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO GREAT HEAT AND PRESSURE. THAT IS ALL.
‘Inside every lump of coal there’s a diamond waiting to get out. right?’
YES, MISS for a few hours, and then when she’s not expecting it, it’ll be time for the old cut-de-grass”, am I right?’
Death said nothing.
‘I am right, aren’t I?’
I CAN’T HIDE ANYTHING FROM YOU, MISS FLITWORTH.
‘Huh. I suppose I should be flattered. Yes? I expect you’ve got a lot of calFLITWORTH.There was no sound for a while, except the clipclop of Binky’s hoofs. Then Miss Flitworth said, archly:‘I do know what’s going on, you know. I saw how much sand there was. And so you thought “She’s not a bad old stick, I’ll show her a good time ls on your time.’
MORE THAN YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE, MISS FLITWORTH.

Herbert James Draper Ulysses and the Sirens

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Have you got any last words?’
YES. I DON’T WANT TO GO.
‘Well. Succinct, anyway.’
Bill Door was amazed to find she was trying to hold his hand. Above him. the hands of midnight came together. There was a whirring from the clock. The door opened. The automata marched out. They clicked to a . They’ve come to make sure it all happens.
‘Bill?’ she said.
He closed his palm over the gold timer.
NOW IT STARTS.
The hoofbeats grew louder, and echoed off the buildings behind them.
REMEMBER: YOU ARE IN NO DANGER.
Bill Door stepped back into the gloom.
Then he reappeared momentarily.
PROBABLY, he added, and retreated into the darkness. Miss Flitworth sat down on the steps of the clock, cradling the body of the girl across her knees.halt on either side of the hour bell, bowed to one another, and raised their hammers.Dong.And then there was the sound of a horse trotting. Miss Flitworth found the edge of her vision filling with purple and blue blotches, like the flashes of after-image with no image to come after. If she jerked her head quickly and peered out of the tail of her eye, she could see small greyclad shapes hovering around the walls. The Revenooers, she thought
‘Bill?’ she ventured.
A mounted figure rode into the square.

Frederic Edwin Church The Icebergs

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jingling noise got closer.
‘Right, Mr So-called Clever Dick Young-fella-me-lad,’ said Ridcully, tapping his staff once or twice on his palm in a meaningful way. The wizards backed up against the wall.
The of the snowballs around in his hand. ‘It must be laying thousands of them,’ he said.’But they wouldn’t all survive, of course. Otherwise we’d be up to here in cities, yes?’ ‘You telling us that these little balls hatch out into huge places?’ said Ludmilla. not straight away. there’s the mobile stage first. ‘Something with wheels on,’ said Windle. that’s right. i can see you know already.
‘I think I knew,’ said Windle Poons, ‘but I didn’t understand. And what happens after the mobile stage?’
‘Don’t know.’
Windle stood up.
‘Then it’s time to find out, ‘ hephantom trolley pusher was almost on them.Ridcully snarled, and leapt out of hiding.‘Aha, my fine young - bloody hellfire!’ ‘Don’t be pullin’ moi leg,’ said Mrs Cake.’Cities ain’t alive. I know people says they are, but they don’t mean really.’Windle Poons turned one said.

Gustav Klimt The Virgin

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summon Death, ‘ said the Dean.’Oh, dear.’
‘following conversation had not been taking place between someone who listened to what people said several seconds before they said it, and someone who didn’t listen to what people said at all, everything might have been a lot different. Or perhaps it wouldn’t. Mrs Cake led with an answer.
‘I’m not your good woman!’ she snapped.
‘And who are you, my good woman?’ said the Archchancellor.
‘Well, that’s no way to talk to a respectable person,’ said Mrs Cake.
‘There’s no need to be offended, ‘ said Ridcully.Nothing wrong with Death,’ said Ridcully.’Professional fellow. Job to do. Fair and square. Play a straight bat, no problem. He’ll know what’s happening.’‘Oh, dear, ‘ said the Dean again.They reached the gateway. Mrs Cake stepped forward, blocking the Archchancellor’s path.Ridcully raised his eyebrows.The Archchancellor was not the kind of man who takes a special pleasure in being brusque and rude to women. Or, to put it another way, he was brusque and rude to absolutely everyone, regardless of sex, which was equality of a sort. And if the

Nicolas De Stael Cap Gris-Nez

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nothing to be gained by going around asking pers’nal questions. I suppose you can work, Mr Bill Door? I’m still getting the hay in off the high meadows and there’ll be a lot of work come harvest. Can you use a scythe?’was laughably simple and easily graspable by the average Ankh-Morpork citizen after a few false starts. If you gave the globe a shake, a cloud of little white snowflakes swirled up in the liquid inside and settled, delicately, on a tiny model of a famous Ankh-Morpork landmark. In some globes it was the University, or the Tower of Art, or the Brass Bridge, or the Patrician’s Palace. The detail was amazing. And then there were Bill Door seemed to meditate on the question for some time. Then he said, I THINK THE ANSWER TO THAT IS A DEFINITE ‘YES’, MISS FLITWORTH.Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler also never saw the sense in asking personal questions, at least insofar as they applied to him and were on the lines of ‘Are these things yours to sell?’ But no-one appeared to be coming forward to berate him for selling off their property, and that was good enough for him. He’d sold more than a thousand of the little globes this morning, and he’d had to employ a troll to keep up a flow from the mysterious source of supply in the cellar.People loved them.The principle of operation