The look of indignation on the face of that artifact was matched only by the total outrage of her whole figure. Oh, she was a mad one! She was the comic masterpiece of the Oganta Collection. If only stone could speak she would be shrilling. She was a newly catalogued item among the grotesque alien stonery called the Paravata Oneirougma.
"You'd almost believe that she was alive!" was the laughing comment of many who watched her here in the display. "Oh, it's that she was alive once, and now she is furious at finding herself frozen in stone."
But that was the whole missed point of her outrage: she wasn't alive; and she never had been.
- - R.A. Lafferty
Today's earrings: spiders, green webs
Bedtime reading: "In Outraged Stone," R.A. Lafferty
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