*Spoiler alert!* This is a serial - don't jump into the middle! Part I is here.
"So if you don't exist, how come you're there?
The cat is in your lap. You're drinking tea.
I haven't got a chimney anywhere.
You just - appeared?"
He lit his pipe. "You see,
"The questions can make anyone insane.
You'll hit epistemology in time.
I'd rather just give out a candy cane
And let you people work the paradigm."
"Your voice - you read to me sometimes, at night.
And after Mom and Dad had gone to bed."
"I do that in the summer. Work is light,
I get to know the books that way," he said.
"Have you read Clement Moore?" He stroked the cat.
"That guy that wrote the poem? He called me fat."
- End of Part VII -
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The wonder and the magic are all here.
Thank you, DB.
Yours in true admiration
Kate
It's very late (yet again). Please accept a general, and very broad, thank you.
And goodnight.
and Santa reading at night during the summer? a dream come true