Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Vincent van Gogh Wheat Field with Cypresses painting

Vincent van Gogh Wheat Field with Cypresses paintingIvan Constantinovich Aivazovsky The Ninth Wave paintingFrank Dicksee Portrait of Elsa painting
transportation to the plane is "absolutely free," and suggest brightly that you'll want to bring a "valid credit card." Cousin Sulie tells me that "it isn't half as bad as that place with the funny name in Florida that Sally Ann insisted on us going to. Honey, those people, they'll skin you."
On New Year's Island just before midnight (which I believe occurs every twelve hours, possibly every six) everybody who can still stand up flocks out to the great courtyard, where a three-story-tall TV screen shows the ball falling down in Times Square. Everybody holds hands and champagne glasses with the usual difficulty and sings "Auld Lang Syne." There are fireworks and more champagne, and the party goes on. And on, and on. I wonder how they clean the party rooms. Maybe they have duplicate rooms, one in use and one being cleaned. Maybe nobody notices. I wonder how they get drunks back to their airport of origin on time, and if they don't, do they get sued? Not that it's any use suing a corporation. I wonder what they give people to smoke at the Hippie Love-In Party and to use at the Punk

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