Alphonse Maria Mucha Dance painting

Alphonse Maria Mucha Dance paintingMichelangelo Buonarroti Crucifix paintingMichelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam detail painting
This was one of nine massive spruces erected this very evening in key rooms throughout the mansion. Flawlessly shaped, Language—and paged to ROBIN GOODFELLOW, because Mysterious Caller had said that the man from whom Fric would soon need to hide “styles himself as Robin Goodfellow.”The definition was a single word: Puck.To Fric, this appeared to be an obscenity, although he didn’t know what it meant.Dictionaries were full of obscenities. This didn’t bother Fric. He assumed that the people who perfectly symmetrical, greener-than-green clone trees.Each of the nine evergreens would be decorated with a different theme. Here the subject was angels.Every ornament on the tree was an angel or featured an angel in its design. Baby angels, child angels, adult angels, blond angels with blue eyes, African-American angels, Asian angels, noble-looking American [222] Indian angels with feathered headdresses as well as halos. Angels smiling, angels laughing, angels using their halos as Hula-Hoops, angels flying, dancing, caroling, praying, and skipping rope. Cute dogs with angel wings. Angel cats, angel toads, an angel pig.Fric resisted the urge to puke.Leaving all the angels to glitter and glimmer and dangle and grin, he went into the book stacks, directly to the shelf that held the dictionaries. He sat on the floor with the biggest volume—The Random House Dictionary of the English