ailleurs elsewhere

chasseresses

gloire à dieu / la tête et les pieds

somebody lives here

quelqu'un vit là sous les marronniers en fleurs

la prison la police

those were our days of springtime

paris,buttes chaumont, au cours de nos quelques journées de printemps

exerpts/reads

"An here might be the motive -- this further example of Irma Onesalt in the role of busybody, to use the belagana term for it. His mother would have called her, in Navajo, a "one who tells sheep which weed to eat."
from TONY HILLERMAN, Skinwalkers




Raven led the old horse forward.
"Now, Mrs Green, if you'd catch hold of the tongue. I wouldn't ask everybody, but I know you don't frighten."
from PENELOPE FITZGERALD, The Bookshop

will endeavour to add pictures tomorrow

from elmore leonard's SPLIT IMAGE

Gary said, "You believe that?"
The Haitian woman said, "If he lie he could tell a good lie, he can tell grand stories. But I don't know." She said, "I go home tonight and fetch a white chicken and kill it."
Gary said, "Yeah? Why you gonna do that?"
The woman said, "Because I'm hungry, I don't eat nothing today coming here."
Gary said, "Oh."


"Was Darius, at the time he was shot, was he holding anything in his hand?"
"He was holding a knife," Byran answered.
"What Kind? Big butcher knife?"
"He was holding a silverware knife."
"Just a plain, ordinary silverware knife?"
"That's right," Bryan said. "With banana cream pie on it."


"Miss McGuire is a sergant," Bryan said, "A homicide detective."
Robbie grinned. "Well, Miss McGuire can get on my case anytime."
......
"Robbie said, "..... It's a nice little weapon."
"Annie said, "It's a gun till you shoot somebody with it. Then it's a weapon."


He's going to say ciao Bryan thought."
"Ciao," Robbie said and headed for the stairs.

walkabout the river a sunday