The Fantastic Phantom Of The Library
This story is just too good to be true - so it is more wonderful that it is true. If it has come to its end - well, that's wonderful, too.
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He? She? It? Whoever it is, the Phantom Sculptor is suddenly back!
As I recently reported, somebody has been dropping glorious little paper sculptures into libraries and museums all over Edinburgh, Scotland, and we've just heard (thank you, alert reader Paul Smith) that there are now three more.
And they will be the last.
In mid-November, someone at the Scottish Poetry Library spotted a fresh, handwritten entry in the guest book, which said "I've left a little something for you," at the shelf marked "Women's Anthologies X."
Chris Scott/Flickr
When they went to check, there were three objects on the shelf. The first, a cap that could fit on a small head, was fashioned to look like a wren, head pointing forward, the back a puffed up haze of feathers.
Chris Scott/Flickr
The feathers, as documented by photographer Chris Scott, are exquisitely fashioned.
Chris Scott/Flickr
...then alongside the cap, was a pair of gloves with the pale markings of a bumble bee
Chris Scott/Flickr
(more)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/11/29/142910393/the-library-phantom-returns
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I owe my life to Hitler, though I never met the man. My father was paid to stop Hitler, so there is no conflict of interest. I was given a thunk on the back o' the head by God when I was fifteen, and within a week began to write. I haven't stopped. My first...
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