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He wondered whether he dared shout, and decided against it.
He stood up. He removed his helmet, to show respect, and sidled through the damp grass to the back door. He knocked, very gently.duke.
The sergeant stared fixedly at an area a few inches to the right of the duke's chair.
'She give me a cup of tea, sir,' he said.
'And what about your men?'
'She give them one too, sir.'you did not in fact do this thing that I asked?'
'Sir?'
'I expect she said some magic words, did she? I've heard about witches,' said the duke, who had spent the night before reading, until his bandaged hands shook too much, some of the more excitable works on the subject.[3] 'I imagine she offered you visions . It had currants in it.'
Felmet sat absolutely still while he fought for internal peace. Finally, all he could manage was, 'And what did your men do about this?'
'They had a bun

Garmash Sleeping Beauty

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are lost, aren't we?' said Tomjon, after a while.
'Certainly not.'
'Where are we, then?'
'The mountains. Perfectly clear on any atlas.'
'We ought to stop and ask someone.'
Tomjon gazed around at the rolling countryside. Somewhere a lonely curlew howled, or possibly it was a badger – Hwel was a little hazy about rural matters, at least those that took place higher than about the limestone layer. There wasn't another human being within miles.
'Who did you have in mind?' he said sarcastically.
'That old woman in the funny hat,' said Tomjon, pointing. 'I've been watching her. She keeps ducking down behind a bush when she thinks I've seen her.'
Hwel 'What about my poor old heart?' said Granny, who wasn't used to acting like an old woman and had a very limited repertoire in this area. But it's traditional that young heirs seeking their destiny get help from mysterious old women gathering wood, and she wasn't about to buck tradition.
'It's just that you mentioned it,' said Hwel.
'Well, it isn't important. Lawks. I expect you're looking for Lancre,' said Granny testily, in a hurry to get to the point.turned and looked down at a bramble bush, which wobbled.'Ho there, good mother,' he said.The bush sprouted an indignant head.'Whose mother?' it said.Hwel hesitated. 'Just a figure of speech, Mrs . . . Miss . . .''Mistress,' snapped Granny Weatherwax. 'And I'm a poor old woman gathering wood,' she added defiantly.She cleared her throat. 'Lawks,' she went on. 'You did give me a fright, young master. My poor old heart.'There was silence from the carts. Then Tomjon said, 'I'm sorry?''What?' said Granny.'Your poor old heart what?'

Albert Moore A Musician

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. . .he had to kiss her. Very romantic, Black Aliss was. There was always a bit of romance in her spells. She liked nothing better than Girl meets Frog.'
'Why did they call her Black Aliss?'
'Fingernails,' said Granny.
'And teeth,' past and afternoons that had lasted forever. Some minutes had lasted hours, some hours had gone past so quickly she hadn't been aware they'd gone past at all . . .
'But that's just people's perception,' she said. 'Isn't it?'
'Oh, yes,' said Granny, 'of course it is. It all is. What difference does that make?'
'A hundred years'd be over-egging it, mind,' said Nanny.said Nanny Ogg. 'She had a sweet tooth. Lived in a real gingerbread cottage. Couple of kids shoved her in her own oven at the end. Shocking.''And you're going to send the castle to sleep?' said Magrat.'She never sent the castle to sleep,' said Granny. 'That's just an old wives' tale,' she added, glaring at Nanny. 'She just stirred up time a little. It's not as hard as people think. Everyone does it all the time. It's like rubber, is time. You can stretch it to suit yourself.'Magrat was about to say, that's not right, time is time, every second lasts a second, that's what it's for, that's its job . . .And then she recalled weeks that had flown

Frida Kahlo Thinking about Death

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Nothing there. Nothing there. The feeling was all around her, and there was nothing to cause it. She'd gone down about as far as she could, to the smallest creature in the kingdom, and there was nothing there.
Granny Weatherwax sat up in bed, lit a candle and reached for an apple. She glared at her bedroom wall.
She didn't need to be, the construction of the castle being such that it swayed slightly even in a gentle breeze. A small turret toppled slowly into the depths of the misty canyon.
The Fool lay on his flagstones and shivered in his sleep. He appreciated the honour, if it was an honour, but didn't like being beaten. There was something out there, something drinking in magic, something growing, something dial seemed so alive it was all around the house, and she couldn't find it.She reduced the apple to its core and placed it carefully in the tray of the candlestick. Then she blew out the candle.The cold velvet of the night slid back into the room.Granny had one last try. Perhaps she was looking in the wrong way . . .A moment later she was lying on the floor with the pillow clasped around her head.And to think she had expected it to be small . . . Lancre Castle shook. It wasn't a violent shaking, but it

George Inness Pond at Milton on the Hudson

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all those statues!'
THOSE STATUES, I'M SORRY TO SAY, WERE PEOPLE. SERVANTS FOR THE KING, YOU UNDERSTAND.
Ysabell's face him, and peered over a canoe at a young girl sprawled across a pile of rugs. She was wearing gauze trousers, a waistcoat cut from not enough material, and enough bangles to moor a decent-sized ship. There was a green stain around her mouth.
'Does it hurt?' said Ysabell quietly.
No. THEY THINK IT TAKES THEM TO PARADISE.set grimly.THE PRIESTS GIVE THEM POISON.There was another groan, from the other side of the cluttered room. Mort followed it to its source, stepping awkwardly over rolls of carpet, bunches of dates, crates of crockery and piles of gems. The long obviously hadn't been able to decide what he was going to leave behind on his journey, so had decided to play safe and take everything.ONLY IT DOESNT ALWAYS WORK QUICKLY, Mort added sombrely.Ysabell clambered gamely after

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to get it off his chest. Own up like a man. Take his on table. Beating about bush, none of. Mercy, throw himself on.
The cunningly mimic the real thing. There are the right flies for morning. There are different flies for the evening rise. And so on.
But the thing between Death's triumphant digits was a fly from the dawn of time. It was the fly in the primordial soup. It had bred on mammoth turds. It wasn't a fly that bangs on window panes, it was a fly that drills through walls. It was an insect that would crawl out from between the slats of the heaviest swat dripping venom and seeking revenge. Strange wings and dangling bits stuck out all over it. It seemed to have a lot of teeth.
'What's it called?' said Mort.piercing blue eyes glittered at him.He looked back like a nocturnal rabbit trying to outstare the headlights of a sixteen-wheeled artic whose driver is a twelve-hour caffeine freak outrunning the tac hell.He failed.'No, sir,'he said.GOOD. WELL DONE. Now THEN, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS?Anglers reckon that a good dry fly should

Claude Monet The Water Lily Pond

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have a pretty good idea about how to develop more effective habits: force yourself to do something until it becomes second-nature.
In the case of developing a more intentional attention, the tools for this are already, very likely, part of your mental , of being prepared at any moment to write down or otherwise record anything and everything that crosses your mind, wherever you may happen to be at the time.
Intentional attention is just an extension of ubiquitous capture; instead of focusing inward, it involves cultivating a constant readiness to capture external things – images, pieces of information, descriptions, snippets of text, whatever feels useful – to process and make use of them later. toolkit. If you’ve been – or any other productivity-oriented site – for any length of time, you probably already know how much I and most other writers who focus on productivity advocate the idea of ubiquitous capture