Remember that children's picture book with the sea-ghosts I was mentioning a few weeks ago? I found it. It's Birdy and the Ghosties (1989); I recognized the cover illustration immediately. What I didn't remember was its author, Jill Paton Walsh. Who is also responsible for The Green Book (1981), which
rushthatspeaks and I both read in elementary school, possibly under its reissue title of Shine, and A Parcel of Patterns (1984), which traumatized us a few years later. Who knew? At this point, I'm just waiting to see what else turns up out of her bibliography—oh, wait, Fireweed's (1970) hers, too. Yes, I have been recommended Knowledge of Angels (1994). What I can't figure out is how she seems to have wound up best known for her Sayers fic.
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- 1: Can't I take my own binoculars out?
- 2: And those who can remember when the night sky was a tapestry
- 3: Plates will shift and the earth will groan
- 4: Look into that smoldering building's bombed-out fog until it finally lifts
- 5: Probably not going to leave the slightest trace in the wake when it's my turn
- 6: Distant as a dream of the cradle on this lonesome beach
- 7: It's only eight, right?
- 8: If it's a moment in time, how come it feels so long?
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