Precious and semiprecious stones. Across the street Van Cleef & Arpels showed brooches men's wristwatches of elegant design bracelets with tiny watches in them and one window that was all diamonds. "Oh lovely.

Stories deliberately spread to prevent any questioning of the mountain's existence. It was on the People's land but it was not a part of the People nor had it been there in ancient times as had the other mountains. What the others saw as supernatural he saw as insult and perhaps as sacrilege. "We hunt the buffalo.
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Definition of obsessional behaviour. It applies to the plain hobbies as well as the fancy ones we call 'the arts'; gun collectors sport bumper stickers reading you WILL TAKE MY GUN ONLY WHEN YOU PRY MY COLD DEAD FINGERS FROM IT and in the suburbs of Boston housewives who discovered political activism during the busing furore often sported similar stickers reading YOU'LL TAKE ME TO PRISON BEFORE YOU TAKE MY CHILDREN OUT OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD on the back bumpers of their station wagons. Similarly if coin collecting were outlawed tomorrow the astronomer very likely wouldn't turn in his steel pennies and buffalo nickels; he'd wrap them carefully in plastic sink them to the bottom of his toilet tank and gloat over them after midnight. We seem to be wandering away from the subject of fear but we really haven't wandered very far. The sludge that catches in the mesh of my drain is often the stuff of fear. My obsession is with the macabre. I didn't write any of the stories.
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