Tired, Morris paused on the sidewalk in front of his house, put down the laptop case (why was it so heavy?) that he had been carrying, and stooped to pick up a crumpled brown leaf. He looked at the birds—noisy little dun ones—fussing in the ridiculous tangle of vines that completely shrouded what had [...]
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Part One•Section XIX•Paragraphs 1&2
Posted in Part One, Section 19, tagged Coulommiers, flute, Gigondas, laptop on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part One•Section XVIII•Paragraphs 1&2
Posted in Part One, Section 19, tagged canterbury, Celtic, flute, music, Scottish ballads, tartan, The Blue-Eyed Lass, thistle on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rennie propped open the old book of Scottish ballads that he had placed on a heavy Victorian mahogany and cast iron canterbury in the far corner of Morris and Aimée’s living room. On pulling the book out of his satchel, he had noticed that the poor thing had suffered in his too frequently neglectful [...]
