Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Tamara de Lempicka La bella Rafaela

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well. At least there'd been witnesses.
He walked to the edge of the roof, and peered over.
'Hello, there,' he said. He blinked. It was six storeys down, and not a sight to look at on a recently emptied stomach.
'Er . . . could you come up here, please?' he said.
' 'Ight oo are.'
Vimes Vimes' lips moved as he mentally inserted all those sounds unobtainable to a creature whose mouth was stuck permanently open. Cornice-overlooking-Broad-way. A gargoyle's personal identity was intimately bound up with its normal location, like a limpet.
'Well now, Cornice,' he said, 'do you know who I am?'
'Oh,' said the gargoyle sullenly.stood back. There was a scrape of stone and a gargoyle pulled itself laboriously over the parapet, moving like a cheap stop-motion animation.He didn't know much about gargoyles. Carrot had said something once about how marvellous it was, an urban troll species that had evolved a symbiotic relationship with gutters, and he had admired the way they funnelled run-off water into their ears and out through fine sieves in their mouths. They were probably the strangest species on the Discdidn't get many birds nesting on buildings colonized by gargoyles, and bats tended to fly around them.'What's your name, friend?'' 'ornice-oggerooking-Oardway.'

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