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Weekly Contest #345
A FRIESIAN COW IN REPOSE AND ASSOCIATED QUESTIONS by Jeff Sutton Last February at about eight o’clock in the morning, I was on a train returning from somewhere or other, having spent the weekend searching for a man called Tom who could lend me his long-handled scythe. It had been a fruitless exercise. The train carriage was almost empty except for two elderly gentlemen who were not sitting together. Perhaps they had argued, perhaps they had never met, I couldn’t tell from where I was sitting. At the next stop, a woman got on and slowly ...
WATCHING PAINT DRY by Jeff Sutton I look at the wallpaper. I stare at the wallpaper. My eyes burn into the very heart of it: into the structure of it: even down to its atomic level. I picture the gaps between the molecules and wonder how they will look an hour from now. The heavy coat of paint I have applied to the wall will eventually find its way between the molecules of the paper, then settle and dry. It is hard to think of paper as being “solid”; it’s only a few microns thick. When wallpaper is wet you can very easily poke your fin...
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