T is for Treasure, heaped into a pile

[freckles_and_doubt]

librsa bought me The Dangerous Alphabet, which is by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Gris Grimly. librsa's superhero powers are Confusing Fog of Non-Sequitur, and Perfectly Chosen Gifts. Dangerous Alphabet introduces itself thusly:

A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled and elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Gris Grimley, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.

I'm particularly fond of the "diminutive but no less courageous gazelle". It's bug-eyed and spindly.



Everybody needs a copy of The Dangerous Alphabet immediately. I'm just saying.

I am back at work today, hacking, snuffling and reeling slightly, but immeasurably better than The Great Flattened Horizontality that was last week. My day has also been pleasingly improved by the receipt of four SMSes, five Facebook messages and six e-mails in addition to a dangerous alphabet. Thank you, all you nice peoples.

Comments

Superhero powers

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

Also, Back-crunching Hug-lifts. Possibly only a superpower if you happen to like them. I don't, many of our friends do. I have given away all my tokens.

Re: Superhero powers

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

I have crossed continents for a librsa hug

Re: Superhero powers

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit ambivalent about them these days, since I have a non-functional elbow - while I appreciate the sensation of the spine unlocking and flexing in a sinuous and serpentine fashion, I'm always afraid my unanchored arm-bones will come shooting out the tip of my elbow in a manner horribly reminiscent of David Cronenberg.

Re: Superhero powers

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

It has been pointed out that it looks like I don't like librsa's hugs. I do, a lot. They are the best hugs in the world. That's most of the reason we are together. It's just the ones where he lifts you up and crunches your back that I don't like.

Re: Superhero powers

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Ah right. I've never had one of those, although I know those who like them. Mostly it's just the big teddy bear hug thing that keeps one coming back :).

Re: Superhero powers

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I have absolutely no medical worries about the big teddy-bear hug at all :>.

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're up & about again, if somewhat muzzily. Now you can infect the rest of the university, if you didn't manage that the week before last!