Post #491125 by Tiki Shark Art on Sat, Oct 31, 2009 5:23 AM

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"Shadows climbed walls like old films rerun
in ancient theaters. Puffs of smoke lingered at
doors with sad eyes and gibbering mouths.

Night and day, Summer and Winter, boys.
Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's
what Halloween is, all rolled up in one. Noon
and midnight. Being born, boys. Rolling over,
playing dead like dogs, lads. And getting up
again. barking, racing through thousands of
years of death each day and each night Hallow-
een, boys, every night, every single night dark
and fearful until at last you made it and hid in
cities and towns and had some rest and could
get your breath.
"And you began to live longer and have more
time, and space out the deaths, and put away
fear, and at last have only special days in each
year when you thought of night and dawn and
spring and autumn and being born and being
dead.
It all adds up. Four thousand years ago,
one hundred years ago, this year, one place or
another, but the celebrations all the same-"
"The Feast of Samhaim-"
"The Time of the Dead Ones-"
"All Souls, 'All Saints'"
"The Day of the Dead."
"El Dia De Muerte,"
"All Hallows."

• The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury

Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker

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[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2009-10-31 06:06 ]