thanks, Ultramarina!

hee - The Doubtful Guest is probably our favourite of the Gorey stuff.

for a long time i thought DD was skewing more to the math/science side - she's got a scrapbook of inventions as thick as my wrist, but in the past year or so, she's really developed a sense of the dramatic. as far as i know, her first-ever self-penned story began, "The light from the window glowed from above. Harry [Potter] gazed up at it, unsure." it's especially cool 'cause it's written on the inside left of a folded page, so it looks like a book. it'll probably live on the fridge door till she's 25.

man, it's a relief to be able to let some of this stuff out. thanks again!

Every Sunday it brooded and lay on the floor. Inconveniently close to the drawing-room door.