Full Disclosure

We aren't the first people to settle on the name "Magpie" for an enterprise involving the collection and hawking of bright, shiny objects. But the Magpie itself has a black glamor, as this snippet from "Birds of Ill Omen" suggests.
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A possible moral: Embrace the danger. Next post, Magpie drops names, those of the working artists whose images adorn/grace/leap off/burn windows through the walls of the gallery shop.