portrait of the artist as a Great White Hunter

[freckles_and_doubt]

I did this afternoon, finally, after taking a longer time than I would have believed possible, and despite the Evil Landlord's bronchitis germs having developed into full-blown 'flu, slay the final encyclopedia entry in my apparently endless list. 4500 words on fairy-tale film have now perished, requiring something in the league of a 4-bore shotgun, and considerable stalking. In the last year, I have written 30 750 words for this encyclopedia.

< poses triumphantly with elephant gun on gigantic recumbent corpse >

Guess I can get cracking on those book updates, then. Sigh.