cartoonist – Charles Addams sub-atomic particle – muon video game – Earthbound baseball score – 3-1 in eleven inning stand-up comic – Steven Wright playing card – 4 of diamonds grain – oat comic novel – Cold Comfort Farm by S. Gibbons opera singer – Maria Callas american romance – W.R. Hearst and Marion Davies […]
Flocks of starlings, rustling like silk, flew to fresh pasture, driven by some necessity of movement, and the smaller birds, the finches and the larks, scattered from tree to hedge as if compelled. Well, here is Daphne, the Cornwall Kid, introducing menace. She was awfully good at menace. Alfred Hitchcock made a dang good movie […]
A Portrait of Rembrandt Rembrandt frisked from room to room, banging his tambourine on the top of his head. He larked, clicking his heels. He boomed a bawdy ballad and roared with laughter. He ran outside giggling and destroyed his neighbor’s tulips. Energized, the young artist, sucking on a plum, returned to his easel. He […]
Clouds all streaming away like ghost fish under the ice. The eccentric old loon of an artist, Gully Jimson, narrates The Horse’s Mouth, Cary’s brilliant novel. Gully is this loon’s favorite character in all of English literature. I mean, look at that fragment. There are plenty more like it to be tasted by the lucky […]
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