It's the little things.

[bunn]

For some reason I am howling with laughter at the 'haunted house' in this week's Sleepy Hollow.  Supposedly this house was overtaken by fearful Eldrich Forces in the eighteenth century, and nobody has spent more than a few days in it since, because it is inhabited by a Scary. ( I don't think this is a spoiler.  Or, only a tiddler, anyway.)

Here it is: http://www.entertainmentoutlook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Sleepy-Hollow-Sanctuary-02.jpg

It's so CLEAN!  Those bricks!  I could cheerfully eat a meal off those bricks! And that paint!  It GLOWS!

Clearly the Scary has spent most of its time since 1781 scrubbing like mad.  I wonder if I can get one to move in with me...?

Of course the whole series is riddled with anachronisms of all kinds, but (perhaps because I live in a place so damp that all surfaces turn green in weeks)  this one really spoke to me. :-D

Comments

[sally_maria]

Presumably the writer lives in a desert, where the dry keeps everything pristine. I don't imagine it would actually have lasted much longer in New England than it would have done over here.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Even in a desert, surely that lovely white paint would get dusty!

Thinking on, the Scary must be more than just an enthusiastic cleaner. I think it must be a dab hand with a paintbrush too.