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“Higgledy-piggledy,
Franklin D. Roosevelt
High over Jutland flew
In from the East.
'Well,' quipped a Minister
Plenipotentiary,
'Something is Groton in
Denmark, at least.”
― Jiggery Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls, With a New Epilogue
Franklin D. Roosevelt
High over Jutland flew
In from the East.
'Well,' quipped a Minister
Plenipotentiary,
'Something is Groton in
Denmark, at least.”
― Jiggery Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls, With a New Epilogue
“There is only so much one can do for the dead without joining them.
The Caravan from Troon”
― Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2001
The Caravan from Troon”
― Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2001
“Tracy stood up and found that the room was swaying around him in a manner that would have been more disconcerting if it had been less familiar.”
―
―
“Darius was clearly of the opinion
that the air was also man's dominion.
And that with paddle or fin or pinion
we soon or late shall navigate
the azure, as now we sail the sea.
The thing looks simple enough to me.
And if you doubt it,
see how Darius reasoned about it.
"The birds can fly, an why can't I?
Must we give in?" says he with a grin,
"that the Blue bird and Feeby
Are smarter than we be?"
"Just fold our hands and see the Swalla,
and the Black bird and the Cat bird beat us holla?
Or tell me that chatterin' sassy little wren knows more 'en men?
Just show me that. Or prove that the bat
has got more brains than's in my hat,
an' I'll back down. An' not till then.”
From "Darius Green and His Flying Machine”
―
that the air was also man's dominion.
And that with paddle or fin or pinion
we soon or late shall navigate
the azure, as now we sail the sea.
The thing looks simple enough to me.
And if you doubt it,
see how Darius reasoned about it.
"The birds can fly, an why can't I?
Must we give in?" says he with a grin,
"that the Blue bird and Feeby
Are smarter than we be?"
"Just fold our hands and see the Swalla,
and the Black bird and the Cat bird beat us holla?
Or tell me that chatterin' sassy little wren knows more 'en men?
Just show me that. Or prove that the bat
has got more brains than's in my hat,
an' I'll back down. An' not till then.”
From "Darius Green and His Flying Machine”
―
“It's hard to have empathy and remember that, as the saying goes, everyone you meet is fighting a great battle when your attention is all taken up by being on fire right now. It's hard to find the energy to be calm and kind and to consider the divergence of experience of others when you're exhausted and trying to keep your own head above the waves and you're swallowing salt water and you have no idea where you are going to find the energy to keep kicking.
Another thing about having your own shit going on is that until you get some perspective on it, that shit feels enormous. Like the center of the universe. And it kind of is, in that nobody who is excavating a pile of trauma like that has the energy for anything except shoveling. But it becomes so all-consuming that it's easy to forget that you - and your trauma - are not the only thing on anybody else's mind, or even the most important one, because they're all really busy thinking about their own shovels.
----------"Erase, Erase, Erase" / The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October, 2019”
―
Another thing about having your own shit going on is that until you get some perspective on it, that shit feels enormous. Like the center of the universe. And it kind of is, in that nobody who is excavating a pile of trauma like that has the energy for anything except shoveling. But it becomes so all-consuming that it's easy to forget that you - and your trauma - are not the only thing on anybody else's mind, or even the most important one, because they're all really busy thinking about their own shovels.
----------"Erase, Erase, Erase" / The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October, 2019”
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