Office Corrections

No phone in the outer office, Harry Truman instead of FDR in the inner. Snall details, but important to me.

The Inner Office of the Secretary of the DEA, circa 1950

Yaargh. My mistake. The photo of FDR should be Truman.

 

Re-"Capitulation"

 

Athenor

Athenor, the little brass boy/homunculus from the chapter of the same name in Elf & Bear. If not immediately sentient upon creation, he became increasingly more so, although his creator, Dr. Gilpin, refused to acknowledge it, preferring he remain the simple tool/machine he was created to be. He was named Athenor from the alchemist's forge that he was made in, so you could say in a strange way Gilpin named him after his 'mother.' Of course, tragedy ensued as Athenor came to consider Gilpin his father, and the doctor refused to acknowledge his personhood, always calling him it. Only after the tragedy and heroic sacrifice did Gilpin finally accept him as his 'son.'

From "Capitulation"

Scenes from my short story "Capitulation", one of the Tales from the Bureau of Shadows available on this blog. Senator Lovett, Senator Connover, the outer office of the Department of Extranatural Affairs, and the 'gremlin' on the plane. Hm. I should have removed the phone (they have to use the one in the hall; the Department is in a rather underfunded condition at the time) and persisted in making the gremlin less apelike but still inhuman. But perhaps I quibble.

A Couple More Characters from "Philo the Frog-Boy"

Mr. Joshua Phineas Williams, Undersecretary of the Department of Extranatural Affairs, and Professor Titus T. Wheeler, proprietor of Wheeler's World of Wonders.

 

Enhance!

More old illustrations enhanced by A!. You can see the originals over on my other blog, Power of Babel. Rats in kimonos chain up a cat, a monk works as a scribe, two version of what I've labeled Oracle shows how differently the AI can interpret a subject, the Lorelei lurks in the waters, and a recreation of Renaissance cabinetry.