At daybreak he went to it. The tide was high, as it had been the night before, and saw that wonderful castle rise up before him as he approached it in his stately
submarine through the hidden way passed the high walls that look like natural stone on coral. He got off at the quay that was just for him. Some of the people had seen him and were frightened. After several minutes’ walking, he reached the enormous mass of rock which supports the little town, dominated by the great citadel. Having climbed the steep and narrow street, He entered the most wonderful Gothic building that has ever been erected to God on Earth, large as a town, and full of low rooms which seem buried beneath vaulted roofs, and of lofty galleries supported by delicate spiral columns.
He entered this gigantic coral and granite jewel, which is as light in its effect as a bit of lace and is covered with towers, with slender belfries to which spiral
staircases ascend. The flying buttresses raise strange heads that bristle with chimeras, with devils, with fantastic animals, with monstrous flowers, are joined together by finely carved arches, to the blue sky by day, and to the black sky by night. An easy mixture of the gigantic and the delicate in one stupendous construction. Genius of both mathematics and architecture reared this incredible pile. (Namely Dr. Dark)
It is a pity that it hasn’t been photographed and put into a glossy dining table book. Both the architecture and that artistic flourishes are all Dr. Dark’s work going back to when he discovered his immortality. (Less immortality than a way of slowing to a crawl, his aging process which allows him to stay the same age, about 40, for centuries.Conscious manipulation of his own body chemistry and cellular growth.) He had built his own workers to construct the huge elegant baroque pile.
jrankin1959 about 7 years ago
First panel – someone goofed; Santiago’s got eyeballs!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 7 years ago
“The Saga of Dr. Dark”(11) 8/5-6/201
DR. DARK’S CASTLE
At daybreak he went to it. The tide was high, as it had been the night before, and saw that wonderful castle rise up before him as he approached it in his statelysubmarine through the hidden way passed the high walls that look like natural stone on coral. He got off at the quay that was just for him. Some of the people had seen him and were frightened. After several minutes’ walking, he reached the enormous mass of rock which supports the little town, dominated by the great citadel. Having climbed the steep and narrow street, He entered the most wonderful Gothic building that has ever been erected to God on Earth, large as a town, and full of low rooms which seem buried beneath vaulted roofs, and of lofty galleries supported by delicate spiral columns.
He entered this gigantic coral and granite jewel, which is as light in its effect as a bit of lace and is covered with towers, with slender belfries to which spiralstaircases ascend. The flying buttresses raise strange heads that bristle with chimeras, with devils, with fantastic animals, with monstrous flowers, are joined together by finely carved arches, to the blue sky by day, and to the black sky by night. An easy mixture of the gigantic and the delicate in one stupendous construction. Genius of both mathematics and architecture reared this incredible pile. (Namely Dr. Dark)
It is a pity that it hasn’t been photographed and put into a glossy dining table book. Both the architecture and that artistic flourishes are all Dr. Dark’s work going back to when he discovered his immortality. (Less immortality than a way of slowing to a crawl, his aging process which allows him to stay the same age, about 40, for centuries.Conscious manipulation of his own body chemistry and cellular growth.) He had built his own workers to construct the huge elegant baroque pile.
davidf42 about 7 years ago
Morning, Anniephans!
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Here’s today’s link:
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http://www.gocomics.com/annie/2008/08/06
Ray_C about 7 years ago
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder (and the brain fuzzier).