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The next day our Wanderer got up, consulted his iPhone, and found that SUUSI was in a Slight Area. Aha, he thought. The Black Swan will arrive today. He consulted the weather forecast. It would arrive early in the evening.
So he went to his workshops. He reviewed over his "The Big Black Thing" song with Bob Sima, and left for lunch. The sky didn't look that bad. It had some cumulus clouds in it (upper left). He went on to tell a workshop of people the stories behind the constellations in the sky. Just before he came in the building to set up, he noticed the clouds growing big. (upper right). He told about the shyster of the Quileute, the Soap Opera of the Sky, and the Micmac Bear Hunt. He thought, the Bear Hunt (Big Dipper and Bootes) was not the kind of quest he was on today. Just go out and shoot the bear. In his case, the Black Swan was preventing other things. Like cows. So his quest was special.
He ate supper and went back to his dorm (Ingles - Habla Usted ingles?) and watched for the Black Swan to appear. This was near the church which was his home so he figured the Swan would be here. He consulted his computer screen and found a red radar dot approaching SUUSI. "It's the Black Swan!", he exclaimed. He went out to confront it. Sure enough, there it was, making the entire sky black (lower left). He shouted, "Go Away!" But it still kept on coming and it got angrier and angrier. (bottom right). He went back to his dorm and shouted out the window, "Hey, Black Swan! You're just a Big Fat Rainstorm."
That angered the Swan. He immediately rained a deluge on the landscape, strangling all the frogs, rotting all the hay, and making all the rabbits wet.
"There!", yelled the Swan.
"Oh you're just a pile of water!", replied the Wanderer. The Swan shut up after that, and the clouds quickly disappeared, allowing the setting sun to shine. It may have even produced a Rainbow, although he didn't check. In any case, the Swan was gone.
"Now I can find the cows", thought the Wanderer.