Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Tarot Roots
A 400-year-old deck of gilded playing cards. Figures depicted as classical Romans. Passed from collector to collector. Potentially had poisoned its maker. Sounds like the basis for a Tim Powers or Edward Whittemore novel!
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