#charles morgan

[rougejaunebleu]

Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Morgan Triangles in Color / September (Mosaic based on a c. 1926 design for Liberty magazine) c. 1929 Painted ceramic tiles 67.9 x 63.5 cm

[chernobog13]

Ultraman Great and the members of the UMA - Universal Multipurpose Agency: Charles Morgan, Lloyd Wilder, Jean Echo, Arthur Grant and Kim Shaomin.

Missing is Jack Shindo, who's off being Ultraman.

[camouflagedacecowboy]

Hosea, former trail boss: I have very high standards for cooks, you know Mr. Pearson.

Simon: I can make spaghetti.

Hosea: Oh no! You're meeting all my standards!

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Micah: Did you miss me while I was in jail? 🐀

Arthur: You were gone? Hah! No wonder these last two weeks have been nothin' but bliss!

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Arthur: I wasn’t that drunk.

Charles: You colored my face with a highlighter because you said "I was important".

Arthur: BECAUSE YOU ARE!

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Arthur: I’m really glad "fight me" has replaced "sue me" in the common vernacular because I don’t have money, but I do have fists and I am always angry.

Tilly: Arthur, can I borrow 100$(Worth 3,738.87$ in 2024.)?

Arthur, already counting bills out of his wallet: Shuoah! Anythin' for my favorite baby sister!

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Reverend Swanson: Why can’t we all just, GET ALONG?

Arthur: Because most of us are assholes, Reverend.

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Happy Ostara!

[spiritintheinkwell]

My favorite horrible children from Witch Week.

It was a really long time since my last reread of this book, and maaaannn... returning to it after coming out is a totally different experience.

[quietflorilegium]

"Charles liked poetry because the lines were so short. You could think your own thoughts in the spaces around the print."

Diana Wynne Jones, "Witch Week"

[desimonewayland]

Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Morgan

Triangles in Color / September (Mosaic based on a c. 1926 design for Liberty magazine) c. 1929

Painted ceramic tiles

MoMA

[neurodivergent-fangirling]

Timely Fandom Quote #3

“[The witch] had been so astonished at being burned. And [Charles] suddenly understood the witch’s amazement. It was because someone so ordinary, so plain stupid, as Inquisitor Littleton had the power to burn him. And that was all wrong.”

– Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

The Mysterious Death of Charles Morgan

Thirty-nine-year-old Chuck Morgan was a successful businessman who was the president of his own escrow agency. He was also a potential witness in a state land fraud case involving a known crime boss. On March 22, 1977, he left his Tucson, Arizona home to drive two of his daughters to school. After dropping them off, he vanished. Three days later, he arrived back at his home. According to his wife, Ruth, he was missing a shoe, had a plastic handcuff around one ankle, and had his hands tied together with a plastic zip tie. He could not speak, but with a pen and paper, he wrote down that he had been kidnapped and tortured. He also wrote that a hallucinogenic drug had been painted on his throat. He claimed that this drug would drive him insane or kill him if he ingested it. He asked Ruth to move his car, because he did not want "them" to know that he had returned home. However, he would not say who "they" were. He also told her not to call the police because a hit would be put out on the lives of them and their family members. For one week, Ruth nursed Chuck back to health by feeding him with an eye dropper. Before his voice returned, he began to allude to a secret identity. He claimed that he had worked as an agent for the federal government and he fought against organized crime. He also claimed that "they" had taken his treasury identification. He said that he escaped from his captors near Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport. After his kidnapping, Chuck became justifiably paranoid. He began wearing a bulletproof vest and even grew a beard to further mask his identity. He also started driving his daughters to and from school. He informed the school that nobody else should be allowed to pick them up. On June 7, two months after his initial disappearance, Chuck vanished again. Shortly before his second disappearance, he told his father that if anything were to happen to him, there was a letter he had written that would tell them who was responsible. The letter was never found; however, nine days later, an unidentified woman called Ruth and said: "Chuck is alright, Ecclesiastics 12: 1-8". This is a reference to a Bible passage, which reads, in part: "Men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road. Remember him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed. Then the dust will return to the earth as it was and the spirit will return to God who gave it." Two days later, Chuck was found shot to death despite the fact he was found wearing a bulletproof vest. His body was found in the desert thirty feet off the highway in the San Juan Springs area. He had been shot once in the back of the head with a bullet from his .357 Magnum, which was lying beside him. No fingerprints were found on it. Gunshot residue was found on his left hand, indicating he had fired a weapon. In his car, police found a note that had directions to the crime scene written in his handwriting. Also found in the car were several weapons, ammunition, and a CB radio. Strangely, a piece of one of his teeth was found wrapped in a white handkerchief in the back seat. A pair of sunglasses was also found that did not belong to him. Strangely, Chuck had clipped a $2 bill inside his underwear. Written on the bill were seven Spanish names from the letters A to G. Also, Ecclesiastics 12 was written, with the verses 1 through 8 marked by arrows drawn on the bill's serial number. This was the same reference that the female caller had made to Ruth. On the back of the bill, the signers of the Declaration of Independence were numbered 1 through 7. Also, a crude map was drawn, which show several roads between Tucson and the Mexican border. The towns Robles Junction and Sasabe were marked; these towns are apparently known for smuggling. Two days after Chuck's death, an anonymous woman spoke to an officer for the Pima County Sheriff's Department on the telephone. She claimed that he was supposed to meet her at a local motel shortly before he died. She claimed that her nickname was "Green Eyes" and that she was the same woman that had called Ruth several days earlier. She also claimed that at the motel, Chuck showed her a briefcase containing several thousand dollars in cash. He said that the money would buy him out of a gang contract that had been put on his life. Surprisingly, despite the bizarre evidence, authorities ruled that Chuck committed suicide. They believed that he did so either because of financial difficulties or fears for his safety. His family and a reporter named Don Deveraux believe he was murdered. Some investigators also suspect that his death was not a suicide. Shortly after Chuck's death, his impounded car was broken into while it was in police possession. Around that same time, his office was also ransacked. Three weeks after his death, two men claiming to be FBI agents arrived at the Morgan home. They told Ruth that they had to look through the house. They tore the house apart and searched for quite awhile. It is unknown if they ever found anything or if they were even FBI agents. When Deveraux contacted the FBI, they claimed that they had never even heard of Chuck Morgan. There are several rumors surrounding this case, including that Chuck was killed because he was involved with illegal activity or was doing secret work for the government. His death seems just as unexplained as the events leading to it.