* * * * *
                                        
     “This one and then that and this and then still another, and on up and
  around, three pumpkins here, seven pumpkins still higher, a dozen clustered
   beyond, a hundred, five hundred, a thousand pumpkins lit their candles …”
                                        
> There must have been a thousand pumpkins on this tree, hung high and on
> every branch. A thousand smiles. A thousand grimaces. And twice-times-a-
> thousand glares and winks and blinks and leerings of fresh-cut eyes.
> 
> And as the boys watched, a new thing happened.
> 
> The pumpkins began to come alive.
> 
> One by one, starting at the bottom of the Tree and the nearest pumpkins,
> candles took fire within the raw interiors. This one and then that and this
> and then still another, and on up and around, three pumpkins here, seven
> pumpkins still higher, a dozen clustered beyond, a hundred, five hundred, a
> thousand pumpkins lit their candles, which is to say brightened up their
> faces, showed fire in their square or round or curiously slanted eyes.
> Flame guttered in their toothed mouths. Sparks leaped out their ripe-cut
> ears.
> 
> Halloween.
> 
> “The Halloween Tree [1]” by Ray Bradbury [2]
> 

I was all set to write about how I first stumbled across The Halloween Tree
[3] as a kid but then I realized—I already have [4]! And even quoted that
book [5]. Twice before [6]. And even referenced [7] it twice more [8].

Sigh.

One of the problems I have with blogging for (almost) nineteen years—I've
probably already blogged about it.

Anyway, Happy Hallowe'en everybody!

[1] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00PEPR5P4/conmanlaborat-20
[2] http://www.raybradbury.com/about.html
[3] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00PEPR5P4/conmanlaborat-20
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/31.1
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/10/31.1
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/31.1
[7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/10/31.2
[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/10/31.1

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