A glassy day dawned when, in the unsuspecting city, down the streets, sidewalks, stoops and avenues, pedestrian walkways and squares, glass marbles began to roll, like the marbles in the old-time game, played from antiquity until recent times when there were still...
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The Ministry of Loneliness
The furious amassing of information and data devours life, thinning out the world. Only a good weeding can get the world growing. There is a widespread sense that soon, a new form of life will take hold when the machines have dominated the last human cell. But since...
Ever since, it’s all changed
Ever since every ocean floor and crater have defrosted Ever since they excavated every stone, new and old Ever since they dug into every height and hollow to wrest out of its nest whatever hid within every creature, every organism small, great, giant and dwarf Ever...
The era of impious omnipotence
There was a time, once, when man had reason to fear like the daemons of nature, winged dragons, the fairies, the elves of the forest and all the other eccentric creatures who jumped about untamed and lively in its/his darkness. At that time he didn’t think himself...
The Animal of Memory
Memory returns. Memory does not forget. Memory remembers. Memory hardens ever more and congeals like a black sludge in the dark. Memory becomes a wasp that stings the mind like an unsuspecting rose. Nothing assimilates anymore, it vomits it all out undigested, and the...


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The Cat’s Eyes
A glassy day dawned when, in the unsuspecting city, down the streets, sidewalks, stoops and avenues, pedestrian walkways and squares, glass marbles began to roll, like the marbles in the old-time game, played from antiquity until recent times when there were still...

The Ministry of Loneliness
The furious amassing of information and data devours life, thinning out the world. Only a good weeding can get the world growing. There is a widespread sense that soon, a new form of life will take hold when the machines have dominated the last human cell. But since...

Ever since, it’s all changed
Ever since every ocean floor and crater have defrosted Ever since they excavated every stone, new and old Ever since they dug into every height and hollow to wrest out of its nest whatever hid within every creature, every organism small, great, giant and dwarf Ever...

The era of impious omnipotence
There was a time, once, when man had reason to fear like the daemons of nature, winged dragons, the fairies, the elves of the forest and all the other eccentric creatures who jumped about untamed and lively in its/his darkness. At that time he didn’t think himself...

The Animal of Memory
Memory returns. Memory does not forget. Memory remembers. Memory hardens ever more and congeals like a black sludge in the dark. Memory becomes a wasp that stings the mind like an unsuspecting rose. Nothing assimilates anymore, it vomits it all out undigested, and the...