July 29, 2003

• The Big Time

  
  
  
  
  
  

  “The place outside the cosmos where I and my pals do our nursing job I simply call the Place.  A lot of my nursing consists of amusing and humanizing Soldiers fresh back from raids into time. In fact, my formal title is Entertainer….” – The Big Time,     by Fritz Leiber

  
  

  
  

  A Story That Works

  
  

  
  
  • “There is the dark, eternally silent, unknown universe;
    
  • there are the friend-enemy minds shouting and whispering their tales and always seeking the three miracles —
    
    
    
    • that minds should really touch, or
      
    • that the silent universe should speak, tell minds a story, or (perhaps the same thing)
      
    • that there should be a story that works, that is all hard facts, all reality, with no illusions and no fantasy;
    
    
  • and lastly, there is lonely, story-telling, wonder-questing, mortal me.”
    

    – Fritz Leiber in “The Button Molder“

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