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Today delivered a bright and cheer­ful blue-dappled day in the city but there were dark forces abroad.  Three grim reap­ers were seen around town this after­noon com­plete with scythes and flow­ing dark hooded robes.  They were spot­ted at the begin­ning of their jaunt in the dank, dark alleys of Left Bank; then again at the lib­rary hit­ting the romance and murder mys­tery sec­tions; later at New World doing a spot of shop­ping; and tak­ing some air on the water­front at dusk (photo cred­it Domin­ika Ziel­in­ska).

They were har­vest­ing more squeals and smiles than souls and seemed to be a hit with the tour­ists.

To what do we owe this psy­cho­pomp?