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: And where the arrow leads, you never know
- 2: Trying my best to arrive
- 3: The earth is too smart for us to break through
- 4: Cigarette, Alka-Seltzer, career to the back of the place
- 5: So can we say we'll never say the classic stuff, just show it?
- 6: Did karma do you justice when you're down and out and lost?
- 7: The rose will grow on ice before we change our mind
- 8: I can see the alchemy
- 9: Is it the lustre of immortality?
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