In order to exist rationally, Pnin had taught himself,during the last 10 yrs, never to remember Mira Belochkin-not because, in itself, the evocation of a youthful love affair, banal & brief, threatened his peace of mind but because such things as Mira's death were possible #Pnin#Nabokov24
Quite cute! Hee, I love the Anadi. Playing a Somewhat insane Evocation Wizard named Moo-Loo...Who I am surprised is still alive. 'Oh, let me use Floating Disk as an umbrella for this acid rain!' *The dragon sighs, feeling sorry for the spider, cancels the rain* 'See! It worked!'
Oh! I saw Evocation at the bookstore the other day and was so enamoured by the cover! So glad to find ya here!
Yyyeeeesssss!!!! (Also I'm reading "Evocation" right now, lol!)
I grew up in the Midlands, so cooling towers on the horizon are a comforting evocation of childhood. My husband was born and bred in Halifax and has never come to terms with being able to see that his city is actually built of a lovely yellow sandstone. We're both soft southerners now though.
Now reading! Pearl from the Dragon’s Mouth: Evocation of Scene and Feeling in Chinese Poetry (Volume 67) www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
The interplay between the external world ( ching ) and …
Warlock who ran afoul of the wizard school’s code of ethics when it was determined (3-2 with the Deans of Conjuration and Evocation abstaining) that having an otherworldly patron providing their powers counted as academic dishonesty 4/4
* 2/3 make NOTLD a vivid, painful evocation of America's horrific & violent history of racism, no matter what exactly happened in the kitchen (metaphoric). Romero was apologetic later, saying it was unfair to put Jones, who knew immediately how charged the material was, and