Thursday, March 5, 2009

Gustav Klimt dancer

Gustav Klimt dancerGustav Klimt Adam and EveFrederic Remington The Cowboy
It's only a mile and the road is clear enough and who was so keen to be out in it when we had the first snowfall? Go on with you, and don't come back till you're in a better temper."
They found Esk "Because you'll just slow us down and probably cry anyway."
Esk looked down at them solemnly. She didn't cry a lot, it never seemed to achieve much.
"If you don't want me to come then I'll come," she said. This sort of thing passes for logic among siblings.
"Oh, we want you to come," said Gulta quickly.sitting in a fork of the big apple tree. The boys didn't like the tree much. For one thing, it was so covered in mistletoe that it looked green even in midwinter, its fruit was small and went from stomach-twisting sourness to wasp-filled rottenness overnight, and although it looked easy enough to climb it had a habit of breaking twigs and dislodging feet at inconvenient moments. Cern once swore that a branch had twisted just to spill him off. But it tolerated Esk, who used to go and sit in it if she was annoyed or fed up or just wanted to be by herself, and the boys sensed that every brother's right to gently torture his sister ended at the foot of its trunk. So they threw a snowball at her. It missed. "We're going to see old Weatherwax." "But you don't have to come."

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