George Bellows Anne in White

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whatever. This isn’t your kind of magic.’
The Librarian nodded, and then stopped listening. He had other things to do.
The Thing was almost level with the Tower of Art, and would soon turn to head for the Library. Things always homed in on the nearest source of magic. They needed it.
The Librarian had found a long iron pike in one of the University’s mouldering storerooms. He held it carefully inrope in the other, and leapt.
The most graphic way of describing the Librarian’s swing across the buildings of Unseen University is to simply transcribe the noises made during the flight.
First: ‘AaaAAAaaaAAAaaa.’ This is self‑explanatory, and refers to the early part of the swing, when everything looked as if it was going well. .
Then: ‘Aaarghhhh.’ This was the noise made as he missed the lurching one foot while he unfastened the rope he’d tied to the weathercock. It stretched all the way up to the top of the Tower; it had taken him all night to fix it up.He surveyed the city below, and then pounded his chest and roared:‘AaaaAAAaaaAAA ‑ hngh, hngh.’Maybe the pounding wasn’t entirely necessary, he thought, while he waited for the buzzing noises and little flashing lights to go away.He gripped the pike in one hand, the