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Christmas spangles, day 5 of @jehane_ltd 12 days challenge, you can see the speed draw of this on my feed as well! Measures 5 cm by 5cm #jehanestwelvedays #jehane #christmasart #christmasartwork #handdrawn #handdrawnart https://www.instagram.com/p/CXQZ0raIVw6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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It’s the 5th of December and time for my next entry in @jehane_ltd twelve days challenge - and my own challenge of drawing tiny art. Today is ‘London Snow’ which is 5cm square and drawn on two layers of tracing paper - if you swipe you can see I drew the exterior of Tooting Bec tube station first, then laid the second piece over to create a foggy feel and added the two commuters struggling home. It’s in a white mount and will be ready in my Etsy shop, link in bio, if you want to give the gift of tiny art to a London friend! #jehanestwelvedays #jehane #londonsnow #tootingbec #tubeart #londonart #tinyartwork #handdrawn #handdrawnillustration #handdrawnartwork #artforsalebyartist #christmasartwork #christmascountdown https://www.instagram.com/sophiejonashill/p/CXGHW53Iz_R/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Jehane's interlude with Ibn Khairan; The Lions of al-Rassan, excerpt:

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"It is late now, Jehane," said this man who seemed to have found her in the night after all.  "It may even be too late, but shall we walk to together a while, you and I?"

"How did you know it was me?" she asked, not answering the question, nor asking the harder one he'd invited. Not yet. Not quite yet.  Her heart was loud.  She felt it as a drumbeat in the dark. 

"I think," said Ammar ibn Khairan of Aljais, very slowly, "that I should know you in a pitch black room.  I think I would know you anywhere near me in the world."  [and then, every woman, and some men, just swooned...so much said, in such spare emotion--I LOVE it!!]

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Carnival...(GGK has a way of weaving a Carnivale-setting w/ the interactions of his characters...the sexual tension and sensuality, the licentiousness and the World balanced on the edge of Change--an invasion, a battle/ a poem about to light the fire for freedom.  This is some inspiration for the first reunion between Caroline and Th j, after he returns from the Rhineland and they've reconciled--in Paris, May 1, 1788--envisioning a street-fest of sorts...and the later scene, in October 31-Nov 1, 1788, entitled, 'Sworn upon the Alter of God', or perhaps, 'The World Turned Upside Down...')--Guy Gavriel Kay, ladies and gents: