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For the next twenty kilometers he drove with the sunshine warm on his arm and a pattern of doubts playing tag in his mind.
There was once a lad so virtuous that the gods gave him a wish. His choice was to be, for a day, the charioteer of the Sun. Apollo was overruled when he predicted dire consequences, but subsequent events proved him right. The Sahara is said to be the track of desolation laid when the inexperienced driver let his carriage pass too close to Earth. Since then, the gods have tried to operate a closed shop. M. N. PLANO
You all know many eco-sensitive races will only build major facilities along a planet’s plate boundaries. That way, when the planet is later declared fallow, all traces of habitation will be sucked down into the mantle and disappear. Some think that’s why there are no signs of previous occupancy on Earth.’
She had awakened suddenly, in the middle of the night, to a tremor that plucked her spine like a bowstring.
Her mind had been in knots that only quiet could smooth.
‘In a world older and more complex than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear … they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time …’
You don’t have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally.
He recalled a Japanese haiku from the eighteenth century, by the great poet Yosa Buson. As the spring rains fall, Soaking in them, on the roof Is a child’s rag ball.
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world.
