Jack Vettriano Bad Boy, Good Girl

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important lesson: hitting people was thuggery. Paying other people to do the hitting on your behalf was good business.
'I'd like you lads .
'Mr Throat tells me youse boys is the best ting since slicing bread,' he said. 'Youse got everyting youse need?'
They nodded, mutely. People tended not to speak to Chrysoprase in case they said something that offended him. They wouldn't know it at the time, of course. They'd know it later, when they were in some dark alley and a voice behind them said: Mr Chrysoprase is really upset.
'Youse go and rest up in your dressing room,' he went on. 'Youse wants any food or drink, youse only got to say.'
He'd got diamond rings on his fingers. Cliff couldn't stop staring at them.to meet Chrysoprase,' said Dibbler. 'An old friend of mine. Me and him go way back. That right, Chrys?''Indeed.' Chrysoprase gave Dibbler the warm friendly smile a shark bestows on a haddock with whom it suits it, for now, to swim in the same direction. A certain play of silicon muscles in the corners also suggested that, one day, certain people would regret 'Chrys'

Jack Vettriano the_Tourist_trap

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'Dean?' said the Senior Wrangler.
The Dean's left full of tins of nasty substances where he made his own binding glue and all the other tedious cosmetics of the Muse of literature.
He'd brought a book down with him. It had taken even him several hours to find it.
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It
would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just hand was held not far from his mouth. The other was making rhythmic stroking motions somewhere in the region of his kidneys.'I don't know what he thinks he's doin',' said Ridcully, 'but it looks unhygienic to me.''I think he's playing an invisible banjo, Archchancellor,' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes.'Well, it's quiet, at least,' said Ridcully. He looked at the hole in the roof, which was letting unaccustomed daylight into the hall. 'Anyone seen the Librarian?'The orang‑utan was busy.He had holed up in one of the Library cellars, which he currently used as a general workshop and book hospital. There were various presses and guillotines, a bench

Thomas Kinkade Cobblestone Bridge

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Obviously something was meant to happen.
She stared at a menu nailed to the wall. It was misspelled, of course, because the menu of the folkier kind of restaurant always has to have misspellings in it, so that customers can be lured into a false sense of superiority. She couldn't recognize Extra Curry 5p
Porn cracker 4p
Eat It Here Or,
Take It Away
The hatch snapped open again and a large brown bag of allegedly but not really waterproof paper was dumped on the little ledge in front of it. Then the hatch slammed shut again.
Susan reached out carefully. The smell rising from the bag had a sort of thermic lance quality that warned against metal cutlery. But tea had been a long time ago.
She realized she didn't have any money onthe names of most of the dishes, which included:Curry with Vegetable 8pCurry with Sweat, and Sore Balls of Pig 10pCurry with Sweer and Sour, Ball of Fish 10pCurry with Meat 10pCurry with Named Meat 15p

Caravaggio Madonna di Loreto

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high, spike‑topped walls around the college grounds looked simple enough to anyone with a fresh mind full of trigonometry and a body honed by healthy fencing, calisthenics and cold baths. Miss Butts could make peril seem really . The road to Quirm didn't look very worn, while the one to Ankh‑Morpork was heavily rutted.
It'd be sensible to go to Quirm to get the feel of city life. It'd be sensible to learn a bit about how city people thought before heading for Ankh‑Morpork, which they said was the largest city in the world. It'd be sensible to get some kind of job in Quirm and raise a bit of extra cash. It'd be sensible to learn to walk before he started to run.interesting.Anyway, that was the incident of the midnight visitor. After a while, Susan considered that she must have imagined it. That was the only logical explanation. And Susan was good at those.Everyone, they say, is looking for something.Imp was looking for somewhere to go.The farm cart that had brought him the last stretch of the way was rumbling off across the fields.He looked at the signpost. One arm pointed to Quirm, the other to Ankh‑Morpork. He knew just enough to know that Ankh‑Morpork was a big city, but built on loam and therefore of no interest to the druids in his family. He had three Ankh‑Morpork dollars and some change. It probably wasn't very much in Ankh‑Morpork.He didn't know anything about Quirm, except that it was on the coast

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Child's Siesta

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'Actually, it's a technical milit'ry term—' said Sergeant Colon.
'That damn troll just happened to save my life today,' shouted Cuddy.
'What for?'
'What for? What for? 'Cos it was my life, that's what tor! I happen to be very attached to it!'
'I didn't mean—'
'You just shut up, Abba Stronginthearm! What do you know about anything, you civilian! Why're you so stupid? Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!'
A shadow loomed'Good point, sergeant. Acting-Constable Detritus!'
'Sir?'
'Volunteer him.'
'I never done nuffin.'
'You can't do that!' shouted the dwarf. in the doorway. Coalface was a basically horizontal shape, a dark mass of fracture lines and sheer surfaces. His eyes gleamed red and suspicious.'Now you're letting it go!' moaned a dwarf.'This is because we have no reason to keep him locked up,' said Carrot. 'Whoever killed Mr Hammerhock was small enough to get through a dwarf's doorway. A troll his size couldn't manage that.''But everyone knows he's a bad troll!' shouted Stronginthearm.'I never done nuffin,' said Coalface.'You can't turn him loose now, sir,' hissed Colon. 'They'll set on him!''I never done nuffin.'

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at the darkness.
'So we go and find what it was?' said Detritus.
'I think so. How do you feel?'
'Feel OK.'
Different 'All what?'
'Just all of it. Everything. All the numbers in the world. I could count them all.'
'What did they equal?'
'Dunno. What does equal mean?'
They trudged on, to see what the future held.species though they were, their minds had focused on a single image, involving a muzzle flash and a lead slug singing through the subterranean night.'He came back,' said Cuddy.'Yes,' said Detritus.They looked at the darkness again.'It has not been a nice day,' said Cuddy.'That the truth.''I'd just like to know something, in case . . . I mean . . . look, what happened in the pork store? You did all that maths! All that counting!''I . . . dunno. I saw it all.'

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timber, branches, rubbish – had piled up in a sort of sordid floating island. There was even fungus growing on it.
What he could do with right now was a bottle of Bearhugger's. The world swam into focus when you looked at it through the bottom of a bottle.
Something else , eyebright for eyes . . . there's even a toadstool called Phallus impudicus, and I don't know what that's for but Nobby is a big man for mushroom omelettes. Now . . . either that fungus down there is exactly the medicine for hands, or . . .
Vimes sighed.
'Carrot, can you go and get a boathook, please?'
Carrot followed his gaze.
'Just to the left of that log, Carrot.'
'Oh, no!'swam into focus.Doctrine of signatures, thought Vimes. That's what the herbalists call it. It's like the gods put a 'Use Me' label on plants. If a plant looks like a part of the body, it's good for ailments peculiar to that part. There's teethwort for teeth, spleenwort for . . . spleens

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course it wasn't like that now. Sergeant Colon had been happily married for years, perhaps because he and his wife arranged their working lives so that they only met occasionally, normally on the doorstep. But she left him decent meals in the oven, and there was clearly something there; they'd got grandchildren, even, so obviously there had been times some old man dying in the groove of his life and buried out of pity by a bunch of youngsters who never knew you as anything other than some old fart who always seemed to be around the place and got sent out to bring back the coffee and hot figgins and was laughed at behind his back?
He'd wanted to avoid that. And now Fate was handing him a fairy tale.
Of course he'd known she was rich. But he hadn't expected the summons to Mr Morecombe's office.when they'd been unable to avoid each other. Young Carrot had to fight young women off with a stick. And Corporal Nobbs . . . well, he probably made his own arrangements. He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no-one knew where he kept it.The point was that everyone else had someone, even if in Nobby's case it was probably against their will.So, Captain Vimes, what is it really? Do you care for her? Don't worry too much about love, that's a dicey word for the over-forties. Or are you just afraid of becoming

Pierre Auguste Renoir Dance in the Country

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There was a faint creak as the door opened.
He looked up.
“Glad to see you’re up and about already,” said Granny
Weatherwax. “I’ve come to help you dress.”
“I’ve looked in the garderobe,” said Verence. “The . . .
elves, was it? ... they ransacked the place. There’s nothing
I can wear.”
Granny looked around the room. Then she went to a low
chest and “I ain’t leaving,” said Granny, quietly, “I’m just shutting the door.”
And then there was the incident with the crown.
Ceremonies and Protocols of The Kingdom of Lancre
was eventually found after a hurried search of Vereopened it. There was a faint tinkling of bells, anda flash of red and yellow.“I thought you never threw them away,” she said. “And you ain’t put on any weight, so they’ll still fit. On with the motley. Magrat’ll appreciate it.”“Oh, no,” said Verence. “I’m very firm about this. I’m king now. It’d be demeaning for Magrat to marry a Fool. I’ve got a position to maintain, for the sake of the kingdom. Besides, there is such a thing as pride.”Granny stared at him for so long that he shifted uncomfortably.“Well, there is,” he said.Granny nodded, and walked toward the doorway.“Why’re you leaving?” said Verence nervously.

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we probably don’t need to worry about it. Are there anymore around?”
“I... don’t think so. Uh. Miss Queen?”
“Yes, Shawn?”
“Could you put the axe down, please? I’d feel a lot bet-ter if you put the axe down. The axe. Miss Queen. You keep swinging it about. It could go off at any second.”
“What axe?”
“The one you’re holding.”
“Oh, this axe.” Magrat appeared to notice it for the first time. “That arm looks bad. Let’s get down to the kitchen and I’ll splint it. Those fingers don’t look good, either. Did they kill Diamanda?”
“I don’t know. And I don’t know why. I mean, she was helping them.”
228“No, miss.”
“They couldn’t have painted her from life, of course. ILORQ6 ftttD ift0/£6“Yes. Wait a moment.” Magrat disappeared one moretime into the armory, and came back carrying a sack. “Comeon. Greebo!”Greebo gave her a sly look, and stopped washing himself.“D’you know a funny thing about Lancre?” said Magrat, as they sidled down the stairs.“What’s that, miss?”“We never throw anything away. And you know anotherthing?”
mean, people didn’t paint portraits in those days. But the
armor . .. hah! All they had to do was look. And you know

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probably pouring the water in,” he said.
“You’ve got a minute or two,” said his wife. “Go on, or we’ll be drinking yogurt for weeks.”
Mr. Skindle took down a halter from behind the door, and crept out to where his goat was tethered near the hedge. It too had learned to, one after the other. Shrapnel whizzed past Mr. Skindle’s ear.
“—wizzaaardsah staaafff has a knobontheend, knobon-
theend—“
He threw the goat through the doorway and leapt after it. His wife was waiting, and slammed the recognize the bathtime ritual, and was rigid with apprehension.There was no point in trying to drag it. Eventually he picked it up bodily.There was a distant but insistent sloshing noise, and the144LQRQ6 ft/VQ LftQ/£Sbonging sound of a floating pumice stone bouncing on the side of a tin bath.Mr. Skindle started to run.Then there was the distant tinkle of a banjo being tuned.The world held its breath.Then it came, like a tornado sweeping across a prairie.“AAaaaaeeeeeee—“Three flowerpots outside the door cracked

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conteft about power, you stupid girls, it is a contest about witchcraft, do you not even begin to know what being a witch IS?
“Is a witch someone who would look round when she heard a child scream?
“And the townspeople said, Yess!”
“That was wonderful,” said Mrs. Quamey, the storekeeper’s wife. “The whole town cheered. A true miffic quality.”
They were in the tavern’s back room. Granny Weatherwax was lying on a bench with a damp towel over her face.
“Yes, it was, wasn’t it?” said Magrat.
80was some kind of rare talent.
“Gytha?” said Granny, from under the towel.
“Yes?”
“You knows I don’t normally tou“That girl was left without a leg to stand -on, everyone says.”“Yes,” said Magrat.“Strutted off with her nose in a sling, as they say.”“Yes,” said Magrat.“Is the little boy all right?”They all looked at Pewsey, who was sitting in a suspi-cious puddle on the floor in the comer with a bag of sweets and a sticky ring around his mouth.“Right as rain,” said Nanny Ogg. “Nothing worse’n a bit of sunburn. He screams his head off at the least little thing, bless him,” she said proudly, as if this ch strong licker, but I’ve heard you mention the use of brandy for medicinal purposes.”
“Coming right up.”

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looked inside himself.And went on looking.He sagged to his knees.I CAN SEE THAT YOU ARE BUSY, said Death."Don't leave me! It's so empty!"Death looked around at the endless desert. He snapped his fingers and a large white horse trotted up.I SEE A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE, he said, swinging himself into the saddle."Where? Where?"HERE. WITH YOU.
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voice . . . . Surely, there had been a voice? But all he could remember was the sound of his own thoughts, bouncing off the inside of his own head.
Now he had to cross the desert. What could there be to fear? The desert was what you believed.
Vorbis "I can't see them!"
Death gathered up the reins.
NEVERTHELESS, he said. His horse trotted forward a few steps.
"I don't understand!" screamed Vorbis.
Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE

Thomas Kinkade Evening Glow

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mainly consisted of tentacles.
"Who were the people who lived here?" said Brutha.
"I don't know."
"What god did they worship?"
"I don't know."
"The statues are made of granite, but there's no granite near here."
"They were very devout, then. They dragged it all the way."
"And the altar block is covered in grooves."
"Ah. Extremely devout. That would be to let the blood run off."
"You really think they did human sacrifice?"
"I don't know! I want to get out of here!"
"Why? There's water and"Who cares? I didn't ask you about him."
"Well . . . sometimes . . . when I'm on catacomb duty . . . it's the kind of place where you it's cool-”"Because . . . a god lived here. A powerful god. Thousands worshiped it. I can feel it. You know? It comes out of the walls. A Great God. Mighty were his dominions and magnificent was his word. Armies went forth in his name and conquered and slew. That kind of thing. And now no one, not you, not me, no one, even knows who the god was or his name or what he looked like. Lions drink in the holy places and those little squidgy things with eight legs, there's one by your foot, what d'you call 'em, the ones with the antennae, crawl beneath the altar. Now do you understand?""No," said Brutha."Don't you fear death? You're a human!"Brutha considered this. A few feet away. Vorbis stared mutely at the patch of sky."He's awake. He's just not speaking." can't help . . . I mean, all the skulls and things . . . and the Book says . . ."
"There you are," said Om, a note of bitter triumph in his voice. "You don't

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people watched them in silence. So did the statues of the gods. The Ephebians had gods in the same way that other cities had rats.
Brutha got a look at Vorbis's face. The exquisitor was staring straight ahead of himself. Brutha wondered what the man was seeing.
It was all used to being on their-they spend so much time looking at the-look, belief is where you find it. Specialization. That's safe, see. Low risk, guaranteed returns. There's even a God of Lettuce somewhere. I mean, it's not as though any one else is likely so new!And devilish, of course. Although the gods in the statues didn't look much like demons-but he could hear the voice of Nhumrod pointing out that this very fact made them even more demonic. Sin crept up on you like a wolf in a sheep's skin.One of the goddesses had been having some very serious trouble with her dress, Brutha noticed; if Brother Nhumrod had been present, he would have had to hurry off for some very serious lying down."Petulia, Goddess of Negotiable Affection," said Om. "Worshiped by the ladies of the night and every other time as well, if you catch my meaning."Brutha's mouth dropped open."They've got a goddess for painted jezebels?""Why not? Very religious people I understand. They're

William Bouguereau Nymphs and Satyr.

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Great God has seen fit to make the poor man shortsighted and he probably won't notice I'm not there, only if he does I shall have to say what I've done because telling lies to a Brother is a sin and the Great God will send me to hell of those."
The tortoise gave him a one-eyed stare for a while. Then it said: "Tall fellow? Full beard? Eyes wobbling all over the place?"
"What?" said Brutha.
"I think I recall him," said the tortoise. "Eyes wobbled when he talkedfor a million years.""In this one case I could be merciful," said the tortoise. "No more than a thousand years at the outside.""My grandmother told me I shall go to hell when I die anyway," said Brutha, ignoring this. "Being alive is sinful. It stands to reason, because you have to sin every day when you're alive."He looked down at the tortoise."I know you're not the Great God Om"-holy horns-"because if I was to touch the Great God Om"-holy horns-"my hands would burn away. The Great God would never become a tortoise, like Brother Nhumrod said. But it says in the Book of the Prophet Cena that when he was wandering in the desert the spirits of the ground and the air spoke unto him, so I wondered if you were one

Thomas Kinkade NASCAR THUNDER

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one ever had the courage to ask him what he did there.
[14] Or up, or obliquely. The layout of the Library of Unseen University was a topographical nightmare, the sheer presence only licensed to carry fourteen people.
[17] In a truly magical universe everything has its opposite. For example, there's anti-light. That's not the same as darkness, because darkness is merely the absence of light. Anti-light is what you get if you pass through darkness and out the other side. On the same basis, a state of knurdness isn't like sobriety. By comparison, sobriety is like having a bath in cotton wool. Knurdness strips away all illlusion, all the comforting pink fog in which people normally spend their lives, and lets them see and think clearly for the first time ever. Then, after they've screamed a bitof so much stored magic twisting dimensions and gravity into the kind of spaghetti that would make M. C. Escher go for a good lie down, or possibly sideways.[15] The Hashishim, who derived their name from the vast quan­tities of hashish they consumed, were unique among vicious killers in being both deadly and, at the same time, inclined to giggle, groove to interesting patterns of light and shade on their terrible knife blades and, in extreme cases, fall over.[16] Although, possibly, quicker. And

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, except for the total extinction of every other lifeform, but what it needed more than anything else now was its owner.

It was easy to . 'A treasury with no treasure in it.'
The seriph stood and beamed. 'Not to worry', he said.
'But all your money has been stolen!' said Conina.
'The servants, I expect,' said Creosote. 'Very disloyal of them.'
Rincewind gave him an odd look. 'Doesn't it worry you?'see that the room was a treasury by its incredible emptiness. Doors hung off hooks. Barred alcoves had been smashed in. Lots of smashed chests lay around, and this gave Rincewind a pang of guilt and he wondered, for about two seconds, where the Luggage had got to.There was a respectful silence, as there always is when large sums of money have just passed away. Nijel wandered off and prodded some of the chests in a forlorn search for secret drawers, as per the instructions in Chapter Eleven.Conina reached down and picked up a small copper coin.'How horrible,' said Rincewind eventually

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stalls hit the row behind them and scraped relentlessly onwards, piling up until a wide avenue of clean, empty stones stretched the whole width of the square.
Ardrothy Yes, that was it ...
Ardrothy had a touch of magic in his genetic makeup, and as he watched the wizards sweep across the square it told him that the very best thing he could do for his health would be to pack his knives, and mincers in his little pack and have it away out of the city at any time in the next ten minutes.
The last wizard in the group lagged behind his col­leagues and looked around the square with disdain.Longstaff, Purveyor of Pies Full of Personal­ity, peered over the top of the wreckage of his stall in time to see the wizards emerge.He knew wizards, or up until now he'd always thought he did. They were vague old boys, harmless enough in their way, dressed like ancient sofas, always ready customers for any of his merchandise that hap­pened to be marked down on account of age and rather more personality than a prudent housewife would be prepared to put up with.But these wizards were something new to Ardrothy. They walked out into Sator Square as if they owned it. Little blue sparks flashed around their feet. They seemed a little taller, somehow.Or perhaps it was just the way they carried them­selves.

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banished an Ipslore thirty years ago,' said Spelter. 'According to the records, he'd got married. I can see that if he had sons, um, they'd be wizards, but I don't understand how-’
'That wasn't 'Sourcerers could do everything,' he went on. 'They were nearly as powerful as the gods. Um. There was no end of trouble. The gods simply wouldn't allow that sort of thing any more, depend upon it.'
'Well, there was trouble because the sourcerers fought among themselves,' said Carding, 'But one sourcerer wouldn't be any trouble. One sourcerer correctly advised, that is. By older and wiser minds.'
'But he wants the Archchancellor's hat!'wizardry. That was sourcery,' said Carding, leaning back in his chair.Spelter stared at him across the bubbling varnish.'Sourcery?''The eighth son of a wizard would be a sourcerer.''I didn't know that!''It is not widely advertised.''Yes, but - sourcerers were a long time ago, I mean, the magic was a lot stronger then, um, men were different ... it didn't have anything to do with, well, breeding.' Spelter was thinking, eight sons, that means he did it eight times. At least. Gosh.