Monday 3 November 2008

Robert Duval Song for a Gentleman painting

Robert Duval Song for a Gentleman paintingRobert Duval Magic Moment paintingRobert Duval Emotional Dance painting
and twenty years ago the butterflies had vanished into the same realm of the legendary as Bibiji herself, so that when they came back exactly one hundred and one years after their departure it looked, at first, like an omen of some imminent, wonderful thing. After Bibiji's death -- it should quickly be said -- the village had continued to prosper, the potato crops remained plentiful, but there had been a gap in many hearts, even though the villagers of the present had no memory of the time of the old saint. So the return of the butterflies lifted many spirits, but when the expected wonders failed to materialize the locals sank back, little by little, into the insufficiency of the day-to-day. The name of the zamindar's mansion, _Peristan_, may have had its origins in the magical creatures' fairy wings, and the village's name, _Titlipur_, certainly did. But names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds,

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