* * * * *
“This one and then that and this and then still another, and on up and
around, three pumpkins here, seven pumpkins still higher, a dozen clustered
beyond, a hundred, five hundred, a thousand pumpkins lit their candles …”
> There must have been a thousand pumpkins on this tree, hung high and on
> every branch. A thousand smiles. A thousand grimaces. And twice-times-a-
> thousand glares and winks and blinks and leerings of fresh-cut eyes.
>
> And as the boys watched, a new thing happened.
>
> The pumpkins began to come alive.
>
> One by one, starting at the bottom of the Tree and the nearest pumpkins,
> candles took fire within the raw interiors. This one and then that and this
> and then still another, and on up and around, three pumpkins here, seven
> pumpkins still higher, a dozen clustered beyond, a hundred, five hundred, a
> thousand pumpkins lit their candles, which is to say brightened up their
> faces, showed fire in their square or round or curiously slanted eyes.
> Flame guttered in their toothed mouths. Sparks leaped out their ripe-cut
> ears.
>
> Halloween.
>
> “_The Halloween Tree_ [1]” by Ray Bradbury [2]
>
I was all set to write about how I first stumbled across _The Halloween Tree_
[3] as a kid but then I realized—I already have [4]! And even quoted that
book [5]. Twice before [6]. And even referenced [7] it twice more [8].
Sigh.
One of the problems I have with blogging for (almost) nineteen years—I've
probably already blogged about it.
Anyway, Happy Hallowe'en everybody!
[1]
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00PEPR5P4/conmanlaborat-20
[2]
http://www.raybradbury.com/about.html
[3]
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00PEPR5P4/conmanlaborat-20
[4]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/31.1
[5]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/10/31.1
[6]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/31.1
[7]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/10/31.2
[8]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/10/31.1
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