Laughter...(variety of different kinds of laughter) and Legend..."What was the movie where some newspaperman had said, 'When you've got a choice between truth and legend, print the legend?' The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, maybe."
Machine's Way...Alexis Machine...Ming vase..."the skin of her face was cracking like the surface of a Ming vase." Tommykockers, our last, and this one, both use the Ming vase imagery. King was in the Ming phase.
Psychopomps: from Barringer's Folklore of America, "sparrows, loons, and especially whippoorwills are psychopomps...from the Greek...meaning those who conduct."
(and Sharkmeat Pie...another of Beaumont's stories, writing as George Stark)
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