Gemini

June 11, 2007

1 A glass-bottomed boat drifts silently and easily over a constantly shifting panorama of marine wonders.
2 A nervous gentleman dressed in an elaborate Santa Clause costume is filling Christmas stockings furtively.
3 An etching or rare beauty displays a charming court life at the garden of the Tuileries under Louis XIV.
4 A series of rooms in a hospitable house, opening one into another, are decorated gaily with holly and mistletoe.
5 A publication devoted to some vital moment for human welfare flaunts an attention-compelling cover.
6 In flaring artificial light, amidst ghostly steam escaping through the rigging, grimy workmen are drilling for oil.
7 An old fashioned well, still yielding the purest and coldest of waters, stands invitingly near a shade of trees.
8 A great industrial plant is closed down and around it mills a crowd of agitators and striking workmen.
9 A medieval archer stands with ease of one wholly sure of himself, bow in hand and quiver filled with arrows.
10 An airplane dives toward the earth as though falling, but rights and recovers itself with smooth gracefulness.
11 A new real-estate subdivision is revealed with wide paved streets, ornamental lights and a few- newly-built houses.
12 A little black slave girl of ante-bellum days, with crinkly hair and saucy eyes, demands her rights of her mistress.
13 The great artist, a world famous pianist, sits at his instrument on the stage of a huge auditorium.
14 Two people at widely different points are in conversation with each other by means of telepathy.
15 Two Dutch children in their immaculate native costumes are studying their lessons together.
16 A woman agitator stands upon a platform, making an impassioned plea to a surrounding group in men.
17 The head of a handsome youthful athlete slowly changes into a different type of beauty, the mature thinker.
18 Standing apart from the passing stream of well-dressed shoppers, two Chinamen in San Francisco are talking Chinese.
19 In the somber archives of a sedate museum a large archaic volume is somewhat conspicuously displayed.
20 A self-service restaurant, the cafeteria such as originated in Los Angeles, displays its inviting steam tables.
21 A throbbing mass of humanity have packed the confines of a city square; it is a labor demonstration.
22 An old-fashioned harvest home festival is at its height with flashing dancing couples crowding the barn floor.
23 Three fledglings, secure in their nest high in the tree, already reveal deep pride of their heritage.
24 A group of carefree children, gaily dressed for their sport, are skating about smoothly on a backwoods pond.
25 A gardener, with all of a mother's care for her child, is trimming a magnificent row of tropical palms.
26 The winter frost has stolen through the woods and given to the trees and underbrush a witching cosmic lacery.
27 A young gypsy youth comes springing out of the forest, regarding the spreading vista before him with deep interest.
28 A man is leaving a courtroom with mixed feelings of relief & determination; he has just passed through bankruptcy.
29 High in a tree that has given only the faintest evidence of returning spring, a mocking bird delivers its repertoire.
30 A typically American conceit is seen; a parade of bathing beauties before the judges and crowd at a seaside resort.
My profile

0 comments: