three wayside stories
Jan. 2nd, 2012 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyume
You can have a shopping cart, but you must pay to rent them.
The rent is cheap though: a few crumbs of bread or bits of cracker will buy you several hours.
Don't forget to pay the ones who live below, too:
Two: The Stream Thorns
In winter, this stream grows giant thorns. They make good swords, I'm told: the blood of those they strike congeals into rubies and garnets.
Three: The Glazier and the Vandal
The glazier and the vandal play a game here. No one else knows the rules, except that when the glazier scores, a window pane appears, and when the vandal scores, a window pane disappears.
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Date: 2012-01-03 04:24 am (UTC)For some reason, this is making me think of John Crowley.
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Date: 2012-01-03 03:28 pm (UTC)I'm going to try to read Engine Summer, Beasts, and The Deep this year.
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Date: 2012-01-03 05:05 am (UTC)The glazier seems to be behind;then again, I wonder if there are more full or empty windowframes in the world right now. A global game between them would be very hard to track.
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Date: 2012-01-03 02:44 pm (UTC)Again with the Win!
Date: 2012-01-03 11:07 am (UTC)Re: Again with the Win!
Date: 2012-01-03 02:45 pm (UTC)And yeah--it was one of those sharp, bright days, the day I took that last photo.
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Date: 2012-01-03 12:41 pm (UTC)Love the thorns most of all this time.
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Date: 2012-01-03 02:47 pm (UTC)I really really prefer it this way--that you drop by now and then, when you have a moment. I know for my own part that I can only comment on a portion of the LJ entries I read and enjoy. This way of doing it feels more honest and more free.
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Date: 2012-01-03 01:51 pm (UTC)The ice in the picture with the thorns is so welcome!
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Date: 2012-01-03 08:30 pm (UTC)Sorry you're feeling that way too.
I hold out for the crab haiku, but if something else finds its way to you, write that. I found two pennies today: one face up, one face down. I'll split the luck with you.
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Date: 2012-01-04 01:49 am (UTC)Hi!
And I see you're a great LoTR fan. Your post of the covers of the Ballantine paperbacks makes me **so** nostalgic for my childhood paperbacks of them. Those were the versions I read when I first read LoTR, in fifth and sixth grade <3
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Date: 2012-01-04 01:54 am (UTC)Join Tolkien fans worldwide tonight in lifting a glass to The Professor tonight, the 120th anniversary of his birth!
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Date: 2012-01-04 02:03 am (UTC)I still have them, with my penciled-in transliteration of the words in tengwar along the bottom of the title pages (though I didn't decipher that until after the Silmarillion came out...)
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