In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.
There are the people of the day, and the creatures of the night. And it's important to remember that the creatures of the night aren't simply the people of the day staying up late because they think that makes them cool and interesting. It takes more...
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting...
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
We're on a mission from Glod.
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.
But this didn't like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.
Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?
El universo danzaba hacia la vida. La vida era un recurso notablemente común. Cualquier cosa lo bastante complicada parecía invitada a apuntarse al negocio, de la misma manera en que cualquier cosa lo bastante enorme recibía una generosa porción ...
DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS.
Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.
The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite ten...
