Tag: Alien
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Tarpington’s Grass
“Last night, at around half-past-three, the garden waste bin moved.” Peregrine Rubeltopf sighed, closing the little book and passing it to Vicki, who opened it again, upside down. “No details. I mean, how did it move? Where did it move? For what reason did it move?” “It was an event. It didn’t need a…
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Eyes half-closed
When Claude Monet completed his work ‘The Japanese Bridge at Giverny’ he was almost blind. Edgar Degas suffered from an eye disease which warped his vision. When Ridley Scott brought ‘Alien’ to the screen the suffuse light he employed turned H.R. Geiger’s design for a rapacious predator from a man in a rubber suit with…