#microcosms

[microcosmicobservations]

Lichens thriving on larch cones

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Microcosms 1996, Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou

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lichen microcosms on the top of the La Sals -- 12,000 feet 

[amyreneogrin]

In any case, everyone who lived through those extraordinary happenings tends towards silence; perhaps because they do not know how to speak, perhaps because they think that if they speak they will get it wrong. Or perhaps it is because while living an adventure it seems like something exceptional, but then when one gets home, and is about to start telling the tale, the words don't come; those things that seemed remarkable have disappeared, flown away, or they no longer seem so marvelous, and little by little nothing comes to mind, after all perhaps nothing happened and one knows not what to say.

Microcosms by Claudio Magris, Caffe San Marco Page 87

[geofflewriter]

When What You Really Need Is George Orwell #microcosms

This week’s three prompts are: Butterfly, 80s shopping mall, sci if Celeste Tial was in a flap. Her date for Lord Woebegone’s Summer fizz and frolics, the chisel jawed, matinee idol, Cy Lent has just evaporated. What was a girl meant to do? You weren’t meant to be stoic; that’s what Cy’s jaw was for – to jut on her behalf. And instead of manicured lawns, pergolas and platters of tiny nibbles,…

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[geofflewriter]

Nailed On: A Rat Tale For The Ages

Jolyon Piper, the last descendant of the Pied Piper, was determined to rehabilitate the family name. It was a high risk strategy: introducing an All Things Rat stall at the food festival, but it proved surprisingly popular. He hadn’t factored in the humourless members of the town council; no amount of pleading convinced the Burghers that his rat burger wasn’t a deliberate insult. He was…

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[geofflewriter]

Nailed On: A Rat Tale For The Ages

Jolyon Piper, the last descendant of the Pied Piper, was determined to rehabilitate the family name. It was a high risk strategy: introducing an All Things Rat stall at the food festival, but it proved surprisingly popular. He hadn’t factored in the humourless members of the town council; no amount of pleading convinced the Burghers that his rat burger wasn’t a deliberate insult. He was…

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[geofflewriter]

What’s In A Name? #microcosms

What’s In A Name? The woman with red-streaked hair and clutching an all important clipboard like a rigid security blanket, looked so excited, Ron knew what was coming. ‘Excuse me. Are you…’ ‘No.’ Ron picked up his coffee and headed for the trailer. He’d wait to be called. ‘But you don’t know…’ the woman followed him. ‘You think I’m related to John Wayne.’ ‘I…’ ‘It’s Ron Wayne, okay.’ He…

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