tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26597293.post5238472622042660770..comments2023-05-24T11:29:40.646+01:00Comments on SA4QE - Spreading the Word of Russell Hoban: SA4QE 2012 - 10 years of Russell Hoban quotesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26597293.post-12876679957793744562012-02-05T22:45:57.393+00:002012-02-05T22:45:57.393+00:00"We're toy mice," said the child. &q..."We're toy mice," said the child. "Is it Miss or Mr. Mudd? Please excuse my asking, but I can't tell by looking at you."<br /><br />"Miss," said the little creature. She was something like a misshapen grasshopper, and was as drab and muddy as her name. "I'll be your friend if you'll be mine," she said. "Will you, do you think? I'm so unsure of everything."<br /><br />"We'll be your friends," said the child. "We're unsure too, especially about the little dogs."<br /><br />I know," said Miss Mudd. "It's all so difficult. And of course everyone bigger than I tries to eat me, and I'm always busy eating everyone smaller. So there isn't much time to think things out." As she spoke, she flung what looked like an arm out from her face, caught a water flea, and ate it up. "It's so distasteful," she said. "I know it's distasteful. I've got this nasty sort of a huge lip with a joint in it like an elbow, and I catch my food with it. And the odd thing, you see, is that I don't think that's how I really am. I just can't believe that I'm this muddy thing crawling about in the muck. I don't feel as if I am. I simply can't tell you how I feel inside! Clean and bright and beautiful--like a song in the sunlight, like a sigh in the summer air."<br /><br />Posted on FB and left in the stacks at Title Wave Books, Anchorage, AKDebby Trimmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16595014483711695346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26597293.post-27262088744924755802012-02-04T23:37:54.292+00:002012-02-04T23:37:54.292+00:00It's already evening, but I've just posted...It's already evening, but I've just posted my 4qation to FB and tagged Russell Hoban...I would have liked to do a handwritten one this year, as well, but could not get out of the house today. :( <br /><br />Happy birthday Russ...and thank you again, for the millionth time. <3danahttp://www.facebook.com/lingerawhilenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26597293.post-90910862275521087652012-02-04T18:04:52.820+00:002012-02-04T18:04:52.820+00:00Posted at facebook. IT is snowing in western Penns...Posted at facebook. IT is snowing in western Pennsylvania today, which somewhat dictated where I left the quotation. Chose the Peters Township Public Library and made my way back home before snow closed in.<br /><br />LindsayLindsayhttp://writersrest.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26597293.post-49211531075416614422012-02-04T14:09:19.297+00:002012-02-04T14:09:19.297+00:00Done! "Everything is real, Angelica. Reality ...Done! "Everything is real, Angelica. Reality is a house of many rooms, and sometimes we can enter more than one." ~ Angelica Lost and Found<br /><br />And here's <a href="http://katewombat.blogspot.com/2012/02/sa4qe-tenth-anniversary.html" rel="nofollow">my photos and the location</a>.K. A. Laityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26597293.post-68750638616462904682012-02-04T09:27:25.900+00:002012-02-04T09:27:25.900+00:00Excellent - lovely to have these gifts. My quote i...Excellent - lovely to have these gifts. My quote is ready, I just have to get out of bed and go leave it somewhere.K. A. Laityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.com