I can\u2019t say they\u2019re all bad.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not. Not really. There\u2019s the pair of scissors that cuts into the head of Mr. Thornton, of Birmingham; but then again, there\u2019s that chessmaster in Eritrea who sees the scissors falling and finally perfects her game.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s all the people in the world whose hearts are struck by a sudden, awful fear. Whose skin crawls and whose stomach twists and who suffer because the scissors have returned.<\/p>\n
That bit\u2019s pretty bad.<\/p>\n
And the origami bridge of Texas is definitively shown to be even more of a boondoggle than it was originally thought to be.<\/p>\n
And the scissors that fall into the sea perturb it. They wound it. They bring about and hasten a certain stirring in the waves.<\/p>\n
\u2014 but then again there\u2019s that old woman in Kaohsiung. She\u2019s dreaming of the children that she\u2019s lost. She\u2019s walking along the street. She\u2019s tottering; and scissors fall.<\/p>\n
She jerks back. They\u2019d almost cut her! She looks down at the scissors, accusingly, fearfully, her heart pounding like a squeaky toy, and then looks up.<\/p>\n
Why, look!<\/p>\n
Her daughter, whom she\u2019d thought was dead, is being discharged from that hospital over there!<\/p>\n
There\u2019s the Hubble Space Telescope, which gets scissors stuck in it, and that\u2019s bad.<\/p>\n
But then \u2014 then there\u2019s Inedible the cat.<\/p>\n
She clanks about dismally in the Gulleys\u2019 mansion. Now and then she tries to catch a mouse, or a squeaky toy, but she can\u2019t do it! Her footfalls \u2014 they\u2019re just too loud!<\/p>\n
Too loud, that is, until<\/em> \u2014<\/p>\n The. Scissors. Fall.<\/p>\n A pair slews past the cat Inedible.<\/p>\n She takes a clanking step \u2014<\/p>\n No, wait. That\u2019s not a clanking step. That step was silent.<\/em><\/p>\n Then again. And again.<\/p>\n The cat dashes down the hall. She stops. Her ears twitch. Her expression turns goofy. She spins around twice and she dashes the other way. She rolls silently over and over on the carpet, stretching, lashing her tail, and wriggling, and then begins to lick silently at her mussed-up fur.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the best thing ever. It\u2019s a thing of glory. At last (she thinks) her minions Edmund and Mr. Gulley have fulfilled her faith in them:<\/p>\n After all these years of doleful clanking, Inedible is free.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I can\u2019t say they\u2019re all bad. They\u2019re not. Not really. There\u2019s the pair of scissors that cuts into the head of Mr. Thornton, of Birmingham; but then again, there\u2019s that chessmaster in Eritrea who sees the scissors falling and finally perfects her game. There\u2019s all the people in the world whose hearts are struck by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-5801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-11","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scissors-Large.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6001,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions\/6001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}