Russell Hoban Quotes

When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And Plants And Pebbles Before He'd Got The Fish And I Asked Him To Leave It As It Was For A While. The Pump Kept Up A Charming Burble, The Green-gold Light Was Wondrous When The Room Was Dark. I Put In A China Mermaid And A Tin Horseman Who Maintained A Relationship Like That Of The Figures On Keat's Grecian Urn Except That The Horseman Grew Rusty. Eventually Fish Were Pressed Upon Me And They Seemed An Intrusion, I Gave Them To A Friend. All That Aquarium Wanted Was The Sound Of The Pump, The Gently Waving Plants, The Mysterious Pebbles And The Silent Horseman Forever Galloping To The Mermaid Smiling In The Green-gold Light. I Used To Sit And Look At Them For Hours. The Mermaid And The Horseman Were From My Father. I Have Them In A Box Somewhere Here, I'm Not Yet Ready To Take Them Out And Look At Them Again.

Russell Hoban Quotes: When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And

Russell Hoban Quotes: When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And

Russell Hoban Quotes: When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And

Russell Hoban Quotes: When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And

Russell Hoban Quotes: When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And

Russell Hoban Quotes: When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And

Russell Hoban Quotes: When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And

Russell Hoban Quotes: When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And

Russell Hoban Quotes: When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And

Russell Hoban Quotes: When I Was A Child I Had A Fishless Aquarium. My Father Set It Up For Me With Gravel And

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