Wednesday 25 March 2009

Marc Chagall Rain

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century is this? Is it?’ and then raised the megaphone again and continued in the original plummily optimistic tones ‘–Century of the Fruitbat! No less than the birth of Moving Pictures! Pictures that move without magic!’
He to create Illusion! Illusion, Ladies and Gentlemen, without recourse to Magic! ‘
Victor let his gaze slide downwards. There was nothing down there but the little dog, industriously scratching itself. It looked up slowly, and said ‘Woof?’
‘–Potential for Learning! The Arts! History! I thank you, Ladies waited for the applause. There wasn’t any. The crowd just watched him. You needed to do more than end your sentences with exclamation marks to get a round of applause from an Ankh-Morpork crowd. Slightly dispirited, he went on, ‘Seeing is Believing, they say! But, ladies and gentlemen, you will not believe the Evidence of Your Own Eyes! What you are about to witness is a Triumph of Natural Science! A Marvel of the Age! A Discovery of World, nay, dare I say, Universe-Shaking Proportions!–’ ‘ ‘S got to be better than that bloody sausage, anyway,’ said a quiet voice by Victor’s knee. ‘–Harnessing Natural Mechanisms

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