Thomas Kinkade The Light of Freedom

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done this before,' said Sergeant Colon, as he and Nobby approached the Fools' Guild. 'Keep up against the wall when I bangs the knocker, all right?'
It was shaped like a pair of artificial breasts, the sort that are highly amusing to rugby players and anyone whose sense of humour has been surgically removed. Colon gave it a quick rap and then flung himself to safety.
There was a whoop, a 'Sergeant Colon, Night Watch,' he said, 'and this here is Corporal Nobbs. We've come to talk to someone about the man who . . . was found in the river, OK?'
'Oh. Yes. Poor Brother Beano. I suppose you'd better come in, then,' said the clown.
Nobby was about to push at the door when Colon stopped few honks on a horn, a little tune that someone somewhere must have thought was very jolly, a small hatch slid aside above the knocker and a custard pie emerged slowly, on the end of a wooden arm. Then the arm snapped and the pie collapsed in a little heap by Colon's foot.'It's sad, isn't it?' said Nobby.The door opened awkwardly, but only by a few inches, and a small clown stared up at him.'I say, I say, I say,' it said, 'why did the fat man knock at the door?''I don't know,' said Colon automatically. 'Why did the fat man knock at the door?'They stared at each other, tangled in the punchline.'That's what I asked you,' said the clown reproachfully. He had a depressed, hopeless voice.Sergeant Colon struck out towards sanity.

Francisco de Goya The Parasol

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flowed outward from the two of them.
Ponder Stibbons held his breath.
“This is a lovely “She’s a queen. That’s pretty high,” said Nanny Ogg.
“Almost as high as witches.”
“Yes . . . well . . . but you ain’t got to give yourself airs,” said Granny Weatherwax. “We’re advantaged, yes, but we act with modesty and we don’t Put Ourselves Forward. No one could say I haven’t been decently party,” said the Bursar to a chair, “I wish I was here.”The Librarian picked up a large bottle from the table. He tapped Carter on the shoulder. Then he poured him a large drink and patted him on the head.Ponder relaxed and turned back to what he was doing. He’d tied a knife to a bit of string and was gloomily watch-ing it spin round and round . . .On his way home that night Weaver was picked up by a mysterious assailant and dropped into the Lancre. No one ever found out why. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially simian ones. They’re not all that subtle.Others went home that night.“She’ll be getting ideas above her station in life,” said Granny Weatherwax, as the two witches strolled through the scented air.

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looking at the birds. It had Lady Jane perched on its arm.
Hodgesaargh, like Mr. Brooks, didn’t take much interest in events beyond his immediate passion. He was aware that there were a lot of visitors in the castle and, as far as he was concerned, anyone looking at the hawks was a fellow enthusiast.“She’s still alive. Just.” She grabbed the hem of her dress, and tried to rip it.
“Damn the thing. Help me, Shawn.”
“Miss?”
“We need bandages!”
“But—““That’s my best bird,” he said proudly. “I’ve nearly got her trained. She’s very good. I’m training her. She’s very intelligent. She knows eleven words of command.”The elf nodded solemnly. Then it slipped the hood off the bird’s head, and nodded toward Hodgesaargh.“Kill,” it commanded.Lady Jane’s eyes glittered in the torchlight. Then she leapt, and hit the elf full in the throat with two sets of talons and a beak.“She does that with me, too,” said Hodgesaargh. “Sorry about that. She’s very intelligent.”Diamanda was lying on the kitchen floor, in a pool of blood.Magrat knelt beside her.

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Clang boinng she said old people needed their pride and independence. Besides, Jason lived on one side, and he or his wife whatshername could easily be roused by means of a boot applied heavily to the wall, and Shawn lived on the other side and Nanny had got him to fix up a long length of string with some tin cans on it in case his presence was required. But this was only for emer-gencies, such as when she wanted a cup of tea or felt bored.
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bath, which normally hung on a nail on the back of the
privy. Now she was dragging it indoors. It was almost up theclang ding...The sound echoed around Lancre.Grown men, digging in their gardens, flung down their spades and hurried for the safety of their cottages . ..Clang boinnng goinng ding...Women appeared in doorways and yelled desperately for their children to come in at once .. .... BANG buggrit Dong boinng...Shutters thundered shut. Some men, watched by their frightened families, poured water on the fire and tried to stuff sacks up the chimney ...Nanny Ogg lived alone, because

George Bellows The Circus

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Weaver the thatcher squinted at his copy of the script.
“Who’s this bugger Exeunt OmnesT’ he said.
“I don’t think much of my part,” said Carpenter, “it’s too small.”
“It’s his poor wife I feel sorry for,” said Weaver, auto-matically.
“Why?” said Jason.+t
“And why’s there got to be a lion in it?” said Baker the weaver.
“’Cos it’s a play!” said Jason. “No one’d want to see it if it had a ... a donkey in it! Oi can just see people comin’ to see a play ‘cos it had a donkey in it. This play was written by a real playsmith! Hah, I can just see a real playsmith puttingFairies,” moaned Bestiality Carter.
“You’ll grow into it,” said Weaver.
“I hope not.”
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“There’s no room,” said Thatcher the carter.
“Well, I ain’t doin’ it where anyone else can see,” said Bestiality. “

Cao Yong Catalina

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But only through me. And, perhaps, not for long. It will all happen again. It's happened before. It happens all the time. That's why gods die. They never believe in people. But you have a chance. All you need to do is . . . believe."
XIII. What? Listen To Stupid Prayers? Watch Over Small Children? Make It Rain?
"Sometimes. Not always. It could be a bargain."
XIV. BARGAIN! I don't Bargain! Not With Humans!
"Bargain now," said Brutha. "While you have the chance. Or one day you'll have to bargain with Simony, or someone like him. Or XIX. Hah! You Want A Constitutional Religion?
"Why not? The other sort didn't work."
Om leaned on the Temple, his temper subsiding.
Chap. II v. l. Very Well, Then. But Only For A Time. A grin spread across the enormous, smoking face. For One Hundred Years, Yes?Urn, or someone like him. "XV. I Could Destroy You Utterly."Yes. I am entirely in your power."XVI. I Could Crush You Like An Egg!"Yes."Om paused.Then he said: XVII. You Can't Use Weakness As A Weapon."It's the only one I've got."XVIII. Why Should I Yield, Then?"Not yield. Bargain. Deal with me in weakness. Or one day you'll have to bargain with someone in a position of strength. The world changes."

Amedeo Modigliani Seated Nude

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Still a few wasps in it, though," said Urn. "You said you've only got a tenth of the army."
"But they're free men," said Simony. "Free in their heads. They'll be fighting for more than fifty cents a day."
Urn looked down at his hands. He often did that when he was uncertain about anything, as if they were the only things he was sure"Good," said Simony. "Listen, Urn. The Church is run by people like Vorbis. That's how it all works. Millions of people have died for-for nothing but lies. We can stop all that-”
Didactylos had stopped talking.
"He's muffed it," said Simony. "He could have done anything with them. And he just told them a lot of facts. You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol." of in all the world."They'll get the odds down to three to one before the rest know what's happening," said Simony grimly. "Did you talk to the blacksmith?""Yes.""Can you do it?""I . . . think so. It wasn't what I . . .""They tortured his father. Just for having a horseshoe hanging up in his forge, when everyone knows that smiths have to have their little rituals. And they took his son off into the army. But he's got a lot of helpers. They'll work through the night. All you have to do is tell them what you want.""I've made some sketches . . ."

Johannes Vermeer The Procuress

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Brutha looked into the black-on-black eyes. Vorbis looked into a round pink face. There was a special face that people wore when they spoke to an exquisitor. It was flat and expressionless and glistened slightly, and even a half­-trained exquisitor could read the barely concealed guilt like a book. Brutha just looked out of breath but then, he always did. It was fascinating.
"No, lord," he said.
"Why not?"in Brutha's mind.
Brutha had never been any good at lying. The truth itself had always seemed so incomprehensible that complicating things even further had always been beyond him.
"So the Septateuch teaches us," he said.
"Where there is punishment, there is always a crime," said Vorbis. "Sometimes "The Quisition protects us, lord. It is written in Ossory, chapter VII, verse-”Vorbis put his head on one side."Of course it is. But have you ever thought that the Quisition could be wrong?""No, lord," said Brutha."But why not?""I do not know why, Lord Vorbis. I just never have."Vorbis sat down at a little writing table, no more than a board that folded down from the hull."And you are right, Brutha," he said. "Because the Quisition cannot be wrong. Things can only be as the God wishes them. It is impossible to think that the world could run in any other way, is this not so?"A vision of a one-eyed tortoise flickered momentarily

John Constable Flatford Mill

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he said, nodding. "How wonderful of the Great God to put such instructive examples in our path."
"The trick is to judge the strength of the wave," said Fri'it. "And ride it."
"What happens to those who don't?"
"They drown. Often. Some of the waves are very big."
"Such is oftenin class. But the tutor priests weren't too strict with him. After all, he had arrived word­-perfect in every Book of the Septateuch and knew all the prayers and hymns off by heart, thanks to grandmother. They probably assumed he was being useful. Usefully doing something no one else wanted to do.
He hoed the bean rows for the look of the thing. The Great God Om, although currently the nature of waves, I understand."The eagle was still circling. If it had understood anything, then it wasn't showing it."Useful facts to bear in mind," said Drunah, with sudden brightness. "If ever one should find oneself in heathen parts.""Indeed." From prayer towers up and down the contours of the Citadel the deacons chanted the duties of the hour.Brutha should have been

Amedeo Modigliani the Reclining Nude

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Patrician watched them carefully. For some reason he felt very uneasy in the presence of glass but that, as he stared fixedly open door, while giving himself a philosophic scratch. Then he turned and shut out the night.
It was warm in the Library. It was always warm in the Library, because the scatter of magic that produced the glow also gently cooked the air.
The Librarian looked at his charges approvingly, made his last rounds of the slumbering shelves, and then dragged his blanket underneath his desk, ate a goodnight banana, and fell asleepat the insects, wasn't what bothered him most.What bothered him was that he was fighting a terrible urge to catch them with his tongue.And Wuffles lay on his back at his master's feet, and barked in his dreams. Lights were going on all over the city, but the last few strands of sunset illuminated the gargoyles as they helped one another up the long climb to the roof.The Librarian watched them from the

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Waterloo

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sidled along the wall and put his ear to the next stone, which was a smaller, wedge-shaped stone cut to fit an angle of the wall, not a big, distinguished stone, but a bantam stone, patiently doing its bit for the greater good of the wall as A little cascade of mortar poured down from the ceiling on to Rincewind's hat.
'Something's acting on the stones,' he said quietly. 'They're trying to break free.'
'We're right underneath quite a lot of them,' observed Creosote.
There was a grinding noise above them and a shaft of daylight lanced down. To Rincewind's a whole. It was also shaking.'Shh!' said Conina.'I can't hear anything,' said Nijel loudly. Nijel was one of those people who, if you say "don't look now", would immediately swivel his head like an owl on a turntable. These are the same people who, when you point out, say, an unusual crocus just beside them, turn round aimlessly and put their foot down with a sad little squashy noise. If they were lost in a trackless desert you could find them by putting down, somewhere on the sand, something small and fragile like a valuable old mug that had been in your family for generations, and then hurrying back as soon as you heard the crash.Anyway.'That's the point! What happened to the war?'

Cao Yong Freedom

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their long and rather dirty hair blowing in the wind -
'With split ends, I expect?' said Rincewind sourly.
'Are you trying to be funny?'
'Me?'
'And here's me without a weapon,' said Conina, sweeping back across the deck. 'I bet there isn't a decent sword anywhere on'But I'm not an Archchancellor!' said Rincewind. 'I mean, I've heard of cool-headed, but-’
I need to use your eyes. Now put me on. On your head.
'Um.'
Trust me.
Rincewind couldn't disobey. He gingerly removed his battered grey hat, looked longingly

Leonardo da Vinci Leda 1530

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the guards raised a crossbow. The Librarian, sitting hunched over his drink, reached out a lazy arm like two broom handles strung with elastic and slapped him backwards. The bolt rebounded from the star on on his knees, enjoying a quiet drink. Occasionally the sound of breaking furniture would make him wince.
The last thing Rincewind saw before he was dragged away was the Librarian. Despite looking like a hairy rubber sack full of water, the orang-utan had the weight and reach of any man in the room and was currently sitting on a guard's shoulders and trying, with reasonable success, to unscrew his head.
Of more concern to Rincewind was the fact that he was being dragged upstairs.Rincewind's hat and hit the wall by a respected procurer who was sitting two tables away. His bodyguards threw another knife which just missed a thief across the room, who picked up a bench and hit two guards, who struck out at the nearest drinkers. After that one thing sort of led to another and pretty soon everyone was fighting to get something - either away, out or even.Rincewind found himself pulled relentlessly behind the bar. The landlord was sitting on his moneybags under the counter with two machetes crossed

Paul Gauguin Two Tahitian Women

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useless. No-one will know what you mean.’
‘I’ll work on it,’ said the Dean.
He noticed Ludmilla standing with her mouth open.
‘This is wizard talk,’ he said.
‘It is, isn’t mind, but he felt instinctively that


there were all sorts of uses for a wire basket on four wheels. ‘Are we going or are we standin’ around all night bandagin’ our heads?’ he said.
‘Yo!’ snapped the Dean.
‘Yo?’ said Reg Shoe.
‘Oook!’ it,’ said Ludmilla. ‘I never would have guessed.’The Archchancellor had got out of the trolley and was wheeling it experimentally back and forth. It usually took quite a long time for a fresh idea to fully lodge in Ridcully’s

Thomas Kinkade Pools of Serenity

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later two others would trundle over their stricken sibling.
Around the Dean trolleys were being splashed into metal droplets. ‘He’s really getting the hang of it, isn’t he?’ said the Senior Wrangler, as he and the Bursar levered yet another basket on to its back. ‘He’s certainly saying Yo a lot, ‘ said the Bursar. The Dean himself didn’t know when he’d been happier. For sixty years vermine who, when faced with a cliff edge, squeaked the rodent equivalent of Blow that for a Game of Soldiers. Vermine now abseil down cliffs, and build small boats to cross lakes. When their rush leads them to the seashore they sit around avoiding one another’s gaze for a while, and then leave early to get home before the rush.he’d been obeying all the self-regulating rules of wizardry, and suddenly he was having the time of his life. He’d never realised that, deep down inside, what he really wanted to do was make things go splat.Fire leapt from the tip of his staff. Handles and bits of wire and pathetically spinning wheels tinkled down around him. And what made it even better was that there was no end to the targets. A second wave of trolleys, crammed into a tighter space, was trying to advance over the tops of those still in actual contact with the ground. It wasn’t working, but they were trying anyway. And trying desperately, because a millennia more and more vermine were descendants of those

Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son

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pulled it open just enough to slip inside.
‘Mr Door?’
There was a rustle in the hay, and then an alert silence.
MISS FLITWORTH?
‘Did you call out? I’m sure I heard someone shout my name.’ There was another rustle, and Bill Door’s head appeared over the edge of the loft.
MISS FLITWORTH.
‘Yes. Who did you expect? Are you all right?’
ER. YES. porridge into a bowl in front of him. and drowned it with cream. Finally, he couldn’t contain himself any longer. He didn’t know how to ask the questions, but he really needed the answers.
MISS FLITWORTH?
‘Yes?’
WHAT IS IT . . . IN THE NIGHT . . . WHEN YOU SEE THINGS,YES, I BELIEVE SO.‘You sure you’re all right? You woke up Cyril.’YES. YES. IT WAS JUST A - I THOUGHT THAT - YES.She blew out the candle. There was already enough pre-dawn light to see by.‘Well, if you’re sure . . . Now I’m up I may as well put the porridge on.’ Bill Door lay back on the hay until he felt he could trust his legs to carry him, and then climbed down and tottered across the yard to the farmhouse. He said nothing while she ladled

Bartolome Esteban Murillo Madonna and Child

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to make some money and impress dad, because dad was against -‘ She picked up the poker and gave the fire a more That’s what I’ve always said,’ she said.’And do you know what, Bill Door? Do you know what I thought?’
NO, MISS FLITWORTH.
‘It was the day before we were going to be wed, like I said. And then one of his pack ponies came back by itself and then the men went and found the avalanche . . . and you know what I thought? I thought, that’s ridiculous. That’s stupid. Terrible, isn’t it? Oh, I thought other things afterwardsferocious jab than it deserved.‘Anyway, some folk said he ran away to Farferee or Ankh-Morpork or somewhere, but I know he wouldn’t have done something like that.’ The penetrating look she gave Bill Door nailed him to the chair.He felt quite proud of himself for spotting the question within the question.MISS FLITWORTH, THE MOUNTAINS CAN BE VERY TREACHEROUS IN THE WINTER.She looked relieved. ‘

Thomas Kinkade Living Waters

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Sergeant Colon heard the wizard slowly climb the stairs, swearing under his breath.
Windle Poons reached the top of the bridge again. He was soaked. ‘You want to go and get changed,’ Sergeant Colon volunteered.’You could catch your death, standing around like that.’
‘Hah!’
‘Get your feet in front of a roaring fire, that’s what I’d do.’
‘Hah!’
Sergeant_
l It is true that the undead cannot cross running water. However, the naturally turbid river Ankh, already heavy with the mud of the plains, does not, after having passed through the city (pop. 1,000,000) necessarily qualify under the term “running” or, for that matter, “water”.
Colon looked at Windle Poons in his own private puddle. ‘You been trying some special kind of underwater magic, y’honour?’ he ventured.‘Not exactly, officer.’‘I’ve always wondered about what it’s like under water,’ said Sergeant Colon, encouragingly.’The myst’ries of the deep, strange and wonderful creatures . . . my mum told me a tale once, about this little boy what turned into a mermaid, well, not a mermaid, and he had all these adventures under the s -‘