In Accepting The Gift You Honor The

I Had No Intention Of Pursuing Either The Characters Or The Setting Further.

It Is The Responsibility Of The Living To Make Meaningful The Sacrifices Of The Dead.

Are You A Person—with Volition And Maybe Some Stubbornness And At Least The Capacity If Not The Actual Determination To Do Something Surprising—or Are You A Tool? A Tool Just Serves Its User. It’s Only As Good As The Skill Of Its User, And It’s Not Good For Anything Else. So If You Want To Accomplish Something Special—something More Than You Can Do For Yourself—you Can’t Use A Tool. You Have To Use A Person And Hope The Surprises Will Work In Your Favor. You Have To Use Something That’s Free To Not Be What You Had In Mind.

Everything Dies, From The Smallest Blade Of Grass To The Biggest Galaxy.

We Need Metaphors Of Magic And Monsters In Order To Understand The Human Condition.