Berthe Morisot The Harbor at Lorient painting

Berthe Morisot The Harbor at Lorient paintingBerthe Morisot The Butterfly Chase paintingPeter Paul Rubens Cimon and Pero paintingPeter Paul Rubens The Straw Hat painting
Having exotic knowledge rare in other people made Fric feel like a wizard. Or at least like a wizard’s apprentice.Aside from Mr. Jurgens, who came to the estate two days every month to clean and maintain the large collection of contemporary and antique electric trains, only Fric knew everything about the train room and its operation.The trains belonged to that world-renowned movie star, Channing Manheim, who also Neither did Fric. He’d been meaning to look it up ever since he’d learned about Tuvalu.The train room was in the higher of two basements, adjacent to the upper garage. It measured sixty-eight feet by forty-four feet, which amounted to more] The lack of windows ensured that the real world could not intrude. The railroad fantasy happened to be his father. In the private world of Fric, the movie star had long been known as Ghost Dad because he was usually only here in spirit.Ghost Dad knew very little about the train room. He had spent enough money on the collection to purchase the entire nation of Tuvalu, but he rarely played here.Most people had never heard of the nation of Tuvalu. On nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, with a population of just ten thousand, its major exports were copra and coconuts.Most people had no idea what copra might be.