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| Terebinth - April 3, 2003 | Caption: Dawn, having erupted, signals now an awakening. / Caption: Our hero, Kestrel B. Finch. / Kestrel: Alas, the mundane Monday still. / Kestrel: The domed compress weighs me down, a knot of steam and addled cottage cheese... / Terpsichore: Hi, Kes. / Kestrel: Brewed above on high and poured... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030403.html |
| Terebinth - April 10, 2003 | Caption: Local resident Kestrel B. Finch makes a shocking discovery. / Kestrel: I am bored! / Caption: Our hero, being young, is relatively unaccustomed to this sensation. / Kestrel: Aye, 'tis most strange. / Kestrel: A far-flung feeling of lack laps upon my heretofore halcyon shores,... / Kestrel:... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030410.html |
| Terebinth - April 17, 2003 | Caption: Our dyspeptic hero, Kestrel B. Finch, has found an object of interest in a rather large stone. / Kestrel: Most certainly, for how the object does intrigue. / Kestrel: Possibilities shine and shout aloud from every beveled plain. / Kestrel: So dare I heed its blinding clarion call? / Kestrel:... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030417.html |
| Terebinth - April 24, 2003 | Caption: Kestrel succumbs to the call of the stone. / Kestrel: Images flood me, alone, adrift, awash in subtle greying tones,... / Kestrel: Afloat amid angles, agape through stony clouds,... / Kestrel: Aloft again, alive and all anticipation among these billowing fissures and facets... / Kestrel:... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030424.html |
| Terebinth - May 1, 2003 | Caption: Meanwhile, back at Terebinth, / Terpsichore: Kes? / Caption: A certain reptile reveals herself. / Terpsichore: Hi, Terry. You seen Kestrel anywhere? / Terebinth: Indeed, Terpsichore. / Terebinth: He is now approximately 90 yards to the south-east. He appears to be declaiming at a rather... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030501.html |
| Terebinth - May 5, 2003 | Caption: Our protagonists converge. / Kestrel: I shudder, cold and warm by turns, as you, my canvas, beckon to me. Hear me, I beg, and grant your maker the life and breath to bestow on you the love and hope that in me yearn. Lo, I shall wrap myself around you tight and close so you in turn may wrap... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030505.html |
| Terebinth - May 8, 2003 | Caption: Cory and her pencil have arrived...apparently just in the nick of time. / Kestrel: Pencil, pencil, sweet utensil,
/ Tool for freehand sketch or stencil,
/ Pray, what fearful paw or wing
/ Can make you laugh, can make you sing? / Terpsichore: Uhh, yeah, Kes, very poetic. / Terpsichore: But what... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030508.html |
| Terebinth - May 12, 2003 | Caption: A bird, a stone, a lizard / Kestrel: I shall! I will! I must! / Terpsichore: So go ahead. / Caption: Kestrel B. Finch, still just a stone, Terpsichore / Kestrel: Inspiration, seize and strike me,
/ That upon this stony tablet
/ All that dwells within me might
/ Take shape and soar in solid... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030512.html |
| Terebinth - May 13, 2003 | Caption: The question to every answer: / Terpsichore: That's it? / Kestrel: What?! / Kestrel: My soul lies open, dew bedecked, petals curling half-outstreched and all in morning's breeze a-tremble, and you paste it in the puss with a slushball?!
/ Terpsichore: No... / Terpsichore: I just wondered... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030513.html |
| Terebinth - May 14, 2003 | Kestrel: A hat... / Kestrel: A cap... / Kestrel: A chapeau... / Caption: Kestrel considers. / Kestrel: A linchpin, fulcrum, focal point! A totem, token, fetish, charm! The crown to set this stony brow! The ne plus ultra! Final touch! / Kestrel: Cory! It's perfect! Where can I get one! / Terpsichore:... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030514.html |
| Terebinth - May 15, 2003 | Caption: The talk turns to the procurement of hats. / Kestrel: But where did you get yours? / Terpsichore: I knitted this, believe it or not. / Kestrel: Well, then-- / Terpsichore: Not on your eggplant, buddy. / Terpsichore: Six of the toughest months of my life I spent on this thing... I never... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030515.html |
| Terebinth - May 16, 2003 | Kestrel: Let's get this over with... / Caption: A bird and a tree: / Kestrel: All right you overgrown oleander--
/ Terpsichore: Hey! Be polite! / Caption: What could be more natural? / Kestrel: Hah! All I want from this vegetable is the quickest route to the nearest haberdashery. / Terebinth: The... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030516.html |
| Terebinth - May 17, 2003 | Caption: Terpsichore seems reluctant. / Kestrel: But you must come with me, Cory! You must!
/ Terpsichore: And why's that, exactly? / Kestrel: Why, to be Earl to my Louis, of course! / Terpsichore: ...Come again? / Kestrel: To be Babs to my Buster, Cory! Harvey to my Elwood, Irma to my Jerry, Sand... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030517.html |
| Terebinth - May 18, 2003 | Caption: To go or not to go. / Terpsichore: Before I say yes or no,... / Kestrel: Yes?! Yes?! / Terpsichore: I want a better idea what I'm getting myself into. / Terpsichore: I mean, how many days' food would we need to pack? What's the weather like in the mountains this time of year? / Terpsichore:... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030518.html |
| Terebinth - May 19, 2003 | Caption: Negotiations continue. / Kestrel: We shall live off the land, Cory, the Earth herself as always our provider! The sun, the clouds,
/ the moon, the stars, all will guide us, watch us, nurture us! Adventure, Cory! Behold, adventure beckons,
/ and we dare not turn back! / Terpsichore: Uhh, right.... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030519.html |
| Terebinth - May 20, 2003 | Terpsichore: Kes? / Terpsichore: What'd I say? / Terpsichore: Terry? / Terebinth: Kestrel is no longer physically able to fly.
/ Terpsichore: What? / Terpsichore: Can't fly? / Terebinth: A hormonal imbalance caused him abnormal growth at puberty, robbing him of flight. Kestrel has felt this loss... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030520.html |
| Terebinth - May 21, 2003 | Terpsichore: C'mon, Kestrel! Wait up!
/ Kestrel: Oh, yes... / Kestrel: I suppose you wish to laugh at the freak! Or to languish your pities upon the poor flightless unfortunate!
/ Terpsichore: What? Kestrel, I just-- / Kestrel: Well, you can't, Cory. / Caption: Sum of his Past / Kestrel: You can't... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030521.html |
| Terebinth - May 22, 2003 | Kestrel: We were talking about my life, weren't we?
/ Terpsichore: Oh, yes... / Terpsichore: I forgot. If it doesn't happen to you, it's not worth talking about.
/ Kestrel: What? Cory, I don't-- / Caption: Some of her Past / Terpsichore: That's right, Kes. You don't. / Terpsichore: You don't care... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030522.html |
| Terebinth - May 23, 2003 | Kestrel: What?
/ Kestrel: Cory, wait!
/ Kestrel: What did I do? / Terpsichore: I keep thinking I'm over it. I keep telling myself... / Terpsichore: The past is like a whole mess of tangled yarn you have to carry wherever you go... / Terpsichore: You can either carry the whole lump around in both hands... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030523.html |
| Terebinth - May 24, 2003 | Caption: "The past is a foreign country..." / Kestrel: But Cory! This is wonderful!
/ Terpsichore: What is? / Caption: Or so some British guy says. / Kestrel: Your hat! Your past! Everything! / Caption: In this case, though... / Terpsichore: You wanna run that past me again? / Kestrel: Your hat... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030524.html |
| Terebinth - May 25, 2003 | Kestrel: Oh, Cory! You've made me the happiest bird on--
/ Terpsichore: I said stop talking, Kestrel. / Terpsichore: That's better. Now, here're my terms. / Terpsichore: First... / Terpsichore: We don't go skipping off into the wilderness like a couple of idiots... / Terpsichore: We use my packs,... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030525.html |
| Terebinth - May 26, 2003 | Caption: Kestrel Responds / Kestrel: May I speak now?
/ Terpsichore: Sure. / Kestrel: For it seems to me that you misunderstand the nature of this journey. / Kestrel: We voyage here, Cory, into the realm of the spiritual. We shall trace the vital yet immaterial line that separates brain from mind,... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030526.html |
| Terebinth - May 27, 2003 | Terpsichore: All right, then. let's go talk to Terry. / Kestrel: Uhh, well, actually... / Caption: Sweet Agreement
/ Kestrel: Could you go talk to him? / Kestrel: I, uhh... / Kestrel: I don't care about the picayune details. / Terpsichore: Fine. / Terpsichore: Don't you worry your pretty little... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030527.html |
| Terebinth - May 28, 2003 | Kestrel: Is this my longed for, dreamed of moment,... / Terpsichore: So we just follow the river the whole way?
/ Yes. / Kestrel: Or am I staggering into a nightmare from which I shall be unable to awaken? / Caption: The Whine of the Open Road / Terpsichore: Thanks, Terry. See you when we get back. / Kestrel:... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030528.html |
| Terebinth - May 29, 2003 | Caption: On the Road / Kestrel: Uhh, Cory, look,... / Kestrel: Perhaps we should reconsider this... / Kestrel: For who can say what dangers, toils and snares might lie in wait for us? / Kestrel: And far be it from me to force you into a journey you have already expressed trepidation concerning. / Kestrel:... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030529.html |
| Terebinth - May 30, 2003 | Caption: On the Road Again / Kestrel: I'm serious, Cory. / Kestrel: I mean, this is all about my art, right?
/ And sure, my art's important to me--it's all that keeps me going sometimes, planning out a canvas, placing the elements in best possible alignment to convey the idea, the meaning, the point... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030530.html |
| Terebinth - May 31, 2003 | Kestrel: What?! Cory, weren't you listening?!
/ Terpsichore: Sure. / Caption: Said/Not Said / Terpsichore: And here's what I heard you say. / Terpsichore: You just told me:
/ "My life is meaningless.
/ "My art's just something I do to pass the time. It means nothing to me or to anyone else.
/ "So why... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030531.html |
| Terebinth - June 1, 2003 | Caption: A Road by Any Other Name / Kestrel: You're sure about this?
/ Terpsichore: Just walk. http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030601.html |
| Terebinth - June 3, 2003 | Kestrel: You needn't have been so harsh.
/ Terpsichore: Oh? / Terpsichore: You were about to walk away from yourself, your art, and the adventure of a lifetime. / Terpsichore: I couldn't let you do that, could I? / Kestrel: Very well, but you still didn't hafta be so harsh.
/ Terpsichore: Okay! I'm... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030603.html |
| Terebinth - June 5, 2003 | Caption: Take Me to the River / Terpsichore: At this rate, we'll be in the foothills be sundown.
/ Kestrel: Ah, the open road... http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20030605.html |