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To be read in the
spirit in which it was written. |
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Chapter-heading:
1. Conquistador |
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Chapter-heading:
2. Something Following Me |
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Chapter-heading:
3. Lime Street Blues |
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Chapter-heading:
4. She Wandered through the Garden Fence |
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…she pondered the
fate of the guy in the suit, sorely tempted to sing the opening line of
a Procol Harum song. |
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Chapter-heading:
5. Kaleidoscope |
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The waitress came
over – without a tray – and Josie ordered two ice teas. |
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Chapter-heading:
6. Good Captain Clack |
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Chapter-heading:
7. Outside the Gates of Cerdes |
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“La la-la, la
la-la…”
Jo’s voice settled
softly on the night air, J recognizing the tune as Procol Harum’s
Skip Softly My Moonbeams. While appropriate to the moment, J
nonetheless felt that she was rubbing it in needlessly.
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Then it began to
rain.
To which Josie responded with the chorus to Piggy Pig Pig. |
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Earlier that
evening she had clung to him out of fear. Now it was with relief that
she buried her face in his chest, her tiny body pressed so tight that he
could feel the ankh pendant beneath her outfit. Unlike the princess,
little Josie’s hair didn’t smell like bluebonnets; it was more a
combination of creek water, vegetation, and midnight. Yet for some
reason the itching went away and he found his mind transported across
time and space to a faraway land where moonbeams did indeed skip softly. |
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Chapter-heading:
8. Homburg |
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Chapter-heading:
9. Repent Walpurgis |
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Chapter-heading:
10. Salad Days (Are Here Again) |
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And so it was
that later, as Gordon Paul stared at the jigsaw puzzles lining the wall
of his sanctuary, a cat landed on the windowsill, eyeing him curiously.
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Author
James Hold writes to 'Beyond the Pale': 'It goes without saying that I'm a
Procol Harum fan, otherwise I would not be writing. I am also a writer with two
published works to my credit. My second book, Remember the Aloe, Moe
makes reference to several PH songs. All of my books (short stories actually)
contain references to different rock-n-roll artists and songs of the mid-60s
early-70s period. Remember the Aloe, Moe concerns itself with the
adventures of a cat that turns itself into a human being and gets into a bunch
of sci-fi tinged adventures. The stories are all satires and spoofs of different
literary, TV, and movie topics.'