Now I see them now I don't

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Obtaining a picture of these tiny flowers—about quarter of an inch across—was more difficult than I had expected. When I first saw them there seemed to be hundreds of them; the next day there were none; today there were a few. Someone suggested they might be night flowering and I should revisit early in the morning, which come to think of it was when I first saw them. I am inclined to think that someone is messing with my head, like Bob did with Silas Lowther's bowler hat in the 1968 Len Deighton novel 'Only When I Larf'. Just because I am paranoid does not mean that they are not out to get me.

Silas came in wearing a bowler hat rakishly set to one side of his head. He had to do that with the small one, the large one slipped down on his ears. I'd bought two more bowlers from that shop where Silas had bought his outfit. One was a quarter inch bigger than Silas's size, the other was a quarter inch smaller. I'd been substituting the three of them, wow, had I got Silas worried. He'd been stroking his forehead a lot, and peering at himself closely in the mirror. The previous day I'd caught him with a tape measure. ~ Bob character at the start of Chapter 7

 

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