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Date Posted: Tue, December 13 2022, 21:59:24
Author: CindyG
Subject: QOTD for Wednesday, December 14, 2022

The following quote is from “A Plague of Zombies,” in Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2011 by Diana Gabaldon, all rights reserved.

“Tom laid out all his implements neatly on the dressing table, from a pair of silver hairbrushes to a box of powder and a pair of curling tongs, with the care and attention of a surgeon arraying his knives and saws. Selecting a hairbrush, he leaned closer, peering at Grey’s head, then gasped. ‘Me lord! There’s a big huge spider—walking right up your temple!’
Grey smacked his temple by reflex, and the spider in question—a clearly visible brown thing nearly a half inch long—shot off into the air, striking the looking glass with an audible tap before dropping to the surface of the dressing table and racing for its life.
Tom and the black servant uttered identical cries of horror and lunged for the creature, colliding in front of the dressing table and falling over in a thrashing heap. Grey, strangling an almost irresistible urge to laugh, stepped over them and dispatched the fleeing spider neatly with the back of his other hairbrush.“

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[> Love these bits of comic relief! Can't you just picture it happening??? -- DianaH, Wed, December 14 2022, 12:34:19


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[> [> Yes! Last night a wobbly spider dropped down on the island right as we were eating. He couldn’t seem to go back up his thread so we put him in a plant. I don’t like spiders because they run so fast, but I respect them and don’t kill them. Love, love, love Tom and John. Great week, Cindy!! ❤️ -- Kathy in PA, Wed, December 14 2022, 18:29:54


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