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Feb. 12th, 2010 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrellWanna see something really scary?
During Arisia I dropped off my prosthetic eye with Columbine of Sunspot Designs
http://www.sunspotdesigns.com
and right before I had my eye surgery I got back this cool prosthetic eye key fob so, as Columbine says, I can keep an eye on my keys (honestly, that was her pun, not mine).
Last night while showing it off to LJ user issendai I finally got around to putting it on a key ring so, if anyone at Boskone wants to see it, just ask. I was hoping to put up a picture, but so far I haven't been able to figure out how to do that. So instead, here's an excerpt from one of my favorite stories .
From "Buffalo Gals" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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She sat up, slowly, still holding her right hand pressed to her right eye.
"Did you lose an eye?" the coyote asked, interested.
"I don't know," the child said. She caught her breath and shivered. "I'm cold."
"I'll help you look for it," the coyote said.... The coyote was trotting busily around, nosing under clumps of rabbit-brush and cheat-grass, pawing at a rock. "Aren't you going to
look?" it said, suddenly sitting down on its haunches and abandoning the search. "I knew a trick once where I could throw my eyes way up into a tree and see everything from up there, and then whistle, and they'd come back into my head. But that goddam bluejay stole them, and when I whistled nothing came. I had to stick lumps of pine pitch into my head so I could see anything. You could try that But you've got one eye
that's OK, what do you need two for? Are you coming, or are you dying there?"
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During Arisia I dropped off my prosthetic eye with Columbine of Sunspot Designs
http://www.sunspotdesigns.com
and right before I had my eye surgery I got back this cool prosthetic eye key fob so, as Columbine says, I can keep an eye on my keys (honestly, that was her pun, not mine).
Last night while showing it off to LJ user issendai I finally got around to putting it on a key ring so, if anyone at Boskone wants to see it, just ask. I was hoping to put up a picture, but so far I haven't been able to figure out how to do that. So instead, here's an excerpt from one of my favorite stories .
From "Buffalo Gals" by Ursula K. Le Guin
block quote start
She sat up, slowly, still holding her right hand pressed to her right eye.
"Did you lose an eye?" the coyote asked, interested.
"I don't know," the child said. She caught her breath and shivered. "I'm cold."
"I'll help you look for it," the coyote said.... The coyote was trotting busily around, nosing under clumps of rabbit-brush and cheat-grass, pawing at a rock. "Aren't you going to
look?" it said, suddenly sitting down on its haunches and abandoning the search. "I knew a trick once where I could throw my eyes way up into a tree and see everything from up there, and then whistle, and they'd come back into my head. But that goddam bluejay stole them, and when I whistled nothing came. I had to stick lumps of pine pitch into my head so I could see anything. You could try that But you've got one eye
that's OK, what do you need two for? Are you coming, or are you dying there?"
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