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Published: 2014-04-28 20:22:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 608; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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Description “The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deathwatch beetles, and thrive the centuries. They were the men with the leather-ribbon whips who sweated up the Pyramids seasoning it with other people's salt and other people's cracked hearts. They coursed Europe on the White Horses of the Plague. They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale. Some must have been lazing clowns, foot props for emperors, princes, and epileptic popes. Then out on the road, Gypsies in time, their populations grew as the world grew, spread, and there was more delicious variety of pain to thrive on. The train put wheels under them and here they run down the log road out of the Gothic and baroque; look at their wagons and coaches, the carving like medieval shrines, all of it stuff once drawn by horses, mules, or, maybe, men.” 


You know that part when Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade were hiding from Mr. Dark in the library.   Well, they should of just pushed a big stack of books onto the bastard.  I mean they got all these heavy "missiles" lying around so why not take the opportunity to laid down a heavy barrage into the advancing enemy.  I wonder why Ray Bradbury never considered that idea.


Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Medium--Ink, pencil and acrylic  
Picture Size--10 X 17 3/4 "

The Last Day of October illustration and kobold characters (C) Copyrighted to mmpratt99 4-28-014
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Wander-Thru [2014-08-24 02:38:38 +0000 UTC]

I remember that part of the book, and this is a great riff on it.  I like the fact that we're seeing the two boys and Mr. Halloway from an odd high angle.  Sharp stuff.

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mmpratt99 In reply to Wander-Thru [2014-08-24 21:59:58 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, sometimes I wonder why Ray Bradbury never considered that idea of using books as heavy weaponry.  I guess he wanted the characters be more realistic as panicking tweenagers than the Macaulay Culkin Home Alone-types.

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