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Archives for October 2016

Several shakes of the bottle and the liquid inside it turned blue.

Without much more information we do not know if that is a good thing and all the problems are now solved, or not.

But it was a very fine color blue.

Some said it was a fine colour too. 

Me or you…

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Consider the options they had. 

Your choices were based on two types of soup, three vegetables and a choice of cheeses. 

What color would you like your car to be?

Which floor do you want to live on?

The questions were reeling around like an out of control roller coaster, when friends arrived, and we forgot all about it.

The sunset confirmed everything we needed, the sunrise provided certainty.

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Enjoy, rest, explore and meet.

That’s the travel system that was taught at the Nomad’s School of Moving From One Place To Another, generally and clumsily known as NOSOMOPTA.

We ignored that advice, it was given out like a directive after a coup d’etat.

We settled on Meet, Listen, Look, Observe. With a sprinkling of Learn and Speak for those interested in becoming capable with the local language.

I wonder what you would choose?

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Dealing at the tables and buying chips.

The croupier of grocers, is the surgeon of booksellers.

That was the theory they lived with until the tall stranger arrived one day.

New knowledge allowed a vista to open up where a wall had existed. 

Even the number of potatoes sold increased many times over.

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A bright violet light leaked out beneath the enormous iron doors.

Was it magic, or an alarm system?

We wondered for a while, bought groceries, had a coffee and decided to talk about something else.

We had no intention of entering the vault and the fastest way to the knowledge we needed was to ask the woman who lives across the river. 

That’s what we have been told.

A ferry ticket would help.

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