Thursday, February 26, 2009

George Inness Peace and Plenty

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, "This is very undignified."
"Shuddup," Said Hrun. He was using Kring to lever the top off the altar. He looked up at Rincewind and grinned. Rincewind hoped that rictus-strung grimace was a grin.
"Mighty magic," commented the barbarian, pushing down heavily on the complaining blade with a hand the size of a ham. "-three sides. He looked up at the ceiling Should it be sagging like that? Hrun hummed a little tune as he began to pull crumbling leather from the desecrated altar.
The air crackled, fluoresced, hummed. Intangible winds gripped the wizard's robe, flapping it out in eddies of blue and green sparks. Around Rincewind's head mad, half-formed spirits howled and gibbered as they were sucked past.
He tried raising a hand. It was immediately surrounded by a glowing octarine corona as the rising magical wind roared past. The gale raced through the room without stirring Now we share the treasure eh?"Rincewind grunted as something small and hard struck his ear. There was a gust of wind, hardly felt."How do you know there's treasure in there?" he said.Hrun heaved, and managed to hook his fingers under the stone. "You find chokeapples under a chokeapple tree," he said. "You find treasure under altars. Logic."He gritted his teeth. The stone swung up and landed heavily on the floor.This time something struck Rincewind's hand heavily. He clawed at the air and looked at the thing he had caught. It was a piece of stone with five-plus

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