Venomous Lumpsucker

by Ned Beauman

A tragedy could only be a tragedy if it hurt somebody? Now she saw that was obviously false. Imagine that nobody had ever discovered Adelognathus marginatum, so it had no cult at all. In that case an erasure could not have hurt anybody, it would not have impinged on the conscious experience of any living being real or potential. Yet it would still have been a terrible loss to the universe. The absence, in this case, of the