Tuesday, 21 April 2009

Pop art miles davis no.8

Pop art miles davis no.8Pop art miles 1960Pop art miles 1960, on rust
home of some daft old bat who reads tea leaves and
talks to her cat.
Cottages It was a cottage of questioning witches, research witches.
Eye of what newt? What species of ravined salt-sea shark? It’s all very well a potion calling for Love-in-idleness, but which of the thirty-seven common plants called by that name in various parts of the continent was actually meant?
The reason that Granny Weatherwax was a better witch than Magrat was that she knew that in witchcraft it didn’t mat-ter a damn which one it was, or even if it was a piece of grass.
The reason that Magrat was a better doctor than Granny was that she thought it didtend to attract similar kinds of witches. It’s nat-ural. Every witch trains up one or two young witches in their life, and when in the course of mortal time the cottage becomes vacant it’s only sense for one of them to move Terry PratchettMagrat’s cottage traditionally housed thoughtful witches who noticed things and wrote things down. Which herbs were better than others for headaches, fragments of old sto-ries, odds and ends like that.There were a dozen books of tiny handwriting and draw-ings, the occasional interesting flower or unusual frog pressed carefully between the pages.

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