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"I first saw the drawings in this book a year ago, in the home of a man named Peter Wenders. Though Mr. Wenders is retired now, he once worked for a children's book publisher, choosing the stories and pictures that would be turned into books.

Thirty years ago a man called at Peter Wender's office, introducing himself as Harris Burdick. Mr. Burdick explained that he had written fourteen stories and had drawn many pictures for each one. He'd brought with him just one drawing from each story, to see if Wenders liked his work. 

Peter Wenders was fascinated by the drawings. He told Burdick he would like to read the stories that went with them as soon as possible. The artist agreed to bring the stories the next morning. He left the fourteen drawings with Wenders. But he did not return the next day. Or the day after that. Harris Burdick was never heard from again. Over the years, Wenders tried to find out who Burdick was and what had happened to him, but he discovered nothing. To this day, Harris Burdick remains a complete mystery."

So begins the enchanting little book called The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. Written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, author of Jumanji, Harris Burdick is composed of fourteen drawings, each accompanied by a title and a caption. Each drawing is beautiful,  evocative, and captivating, and even flipping through the book gave me all kinds of wonderful ideas for stories that would go along with the images. 

Many groups over the years have attempted to write stories to fit the pictures (including a series of professional writers, who were published as The Chronicles of Harris Burdick), and we're going to do the same. Check out the forum thread for details!

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Hi new member. We're really excited to have you in our club. :) Before posting, here are a couple points of interest that will help you figure out who we are and what we do.

First, join the Facebook group. Make sure that on your Facebook public profile, I can confirm you are a BYU student (otherwise BYUSA gets angry). If I haven't accepted your request, send me a PM (I'm Jimmy).

Second, read the Forum Guidelines and Etiquette first post. It goes over some of-old unspoken rules, expectations, house rules, what have you, on these forums.

Third, post in the introductions thread. It's big, it's long, but don't worry, we get updates about new posts. ;)

And if you're curious who some of our members and officers are, check out this thread.

Some Weekly Meetings:

Board Game Night: Tuesdays 6-8pm above the Terrace in the WSC (near the BYUSA office). Go to the third floor and look for geeks with board games.

Smash Night: Thursday 5-7:30pm in 1104 JKB

Film Forums: Thursday 7:30p in 1104 JKB

Writing Group: Writing group meets on Fridays, somewhere in the HBLL. Check the forums and Facebook page for spejoku's announcements.

Thank you, and welcome to possibly the awesomest club on BYU campus. Seriously, we're one of the biggest. Like a huge, uncontrollable blob out to kill people.

In anticipation of the upcoming semester, we have a need of pictures! Lots of them! What kind of pictures? QUARK PICTURES!

So what we need are pictures you may have taken at various club activities. The pics could be as something as simple as preparing for a recruitment booth, having fun at board game night, partying at an art meeting, discussing a book, reading each other's stories, or your beloved President pontificating in front of everyone at a social. But we'd really like these images to be sent to us. Here is how we need you to do this:

1) Send all pics to quarkpics@gmail.com

2) Make sure what event the pics are of IS IN THE TITLE OF THE EMAIL ALONG WITH WHO IS SENDING THEM! For example, if I had a bunch of pics from the Quark Winter Openning Social of 2009 I'd lable my email, "Winter Openning Social '09- Splice"

3) Understand you're letting us use these pictures for slide shows, collages, and other promotial stuff so we can show potential members how awesome we are. You want to help with recruitement, right?

So there you go! Start sending away!