measurable distance

Picked up the Pendragon Campaign today. A lovely big book, and seems to be full of excellent material on first skim. (Also big and heavy enough that I could cover it with brown paper and fake it as Nanao's carry-around tome from Bleach. Not that there is anything wrong with that.)

Finished first draft of second assignment and sent it in. Can now get round to redlines of first assignment which have been accumulating.

. . . then again, I might have a day off those assignments. Just one. Must check deadlines.

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Hunters in the Snow

The over-all picture is winter
icy mountains
in the background the return
from the hunt it is toward evening
from the left
sturdy hunters lead in
their pack the inn-sign
hanging from a
broken hinge is a stag a crucifix
between his antlers the cold
inn yard is
deserted but for a huge bonfire
that flares wind-driven tended by
women who cluster
about it to the right beyond
the hill is a pattern of skaters
Brueghel the painter
concerned with it all has chosen
a winter-struck bush for his
foreground to
complete the picture

-- William Carlos Williams