Friday, 27 March 2009

Pablo Picasso Crucifixion

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What I don’t understand,’ said Gaspode, as Victor picked up the stick and hurled it away, Laddie racing along underneath it, ‘is how come we’re descended from wolves. I mean, your average wolf, he’s a bright bugger, along in a bowlegged swagger. ‘Only I can look after myself. It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. You think Dopey the Mutt there would last five minutes in Ankh-Morpork? He set one paw in some o’ the streets, he’s three sets of fur gloves an’ Crispy Fried No. 27 at the nearest Klatchian all-night carryout.’
Victor threw the stick again.
‘Tell me,’ he said, ‘who was the famous Gaspode you’re named after?’
‘You never heard of him?’
‘No.’ know what I mean? Chock full of cunnin’ an’ like that. We’re talking grey paws racing over the trackless tundra, is what I’m getting at.’ Gaspode looked wistfully at the distant mountains. ‘And suddenly a handful of generations later we’ve got Percy the Pup here with a cold nose, bright eyes, glossy coat and the brains of a stunned herring.’ ‘And you,’ said Victor. Laddie whirled back in a storm of sand and dropped the damp stick in front of him. Victor picked it up and threw it again. Laddie bounded off, yapping himself sick with excitement. ‘Well, yeah,’ said Gaspode, ambling

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