The Ten Trusts |
Eventually money was raised to build a large enclosure, surrounded by a moat (since chimps cannot swim). Nineteen other chimpanzees were purchased, introduced to eachother, then released into the encl...
Posted by stellar evolution on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:34:00 PST |
The Neverending Story |
"Have you seen the Nothing, sonny?"
"Yes, many times."
"What does it look like?"
"As if one were blind."
"That's right and when you get to the human world, the Nothing will cling to you. You'll be lik...
Posted by stellar evolution on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:55:00 PST |
The Tribe of Tiger |
Whatever had made this young man think that an irritating noise from a little primate like himself could frighten away a monstrous, experienced male elephant twice his age, an elephant with bullet hol...
Posted by stellar evolution on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:50:00 PST |
In the Forests of Serre |
He walked down a dusty road in a strange dry landscape, eating a handful of stones. In that land, stones turned to words in the mouth. Words tasted like honey, like blood; they vibrated with insect wi...
Posted by stellar evolution on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:34:00 PST |
The Theory of Everything. |
This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the fundamental time, and that what we call real time is something we create just in our minds. In real time, the universe has a beginnin...
Posted by stellar evolution on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:35:00 PST |
Raising the Peaceable Kingdom |
Similar comments about the lack of murderous intent, the absence of genocide, among animals are nearly a cliche. Yet it is true and deserves to be rescued from appearing to be merely a cliche, for in ...
Posted by stellar evolution on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:33:00 PST |
Elephant Destiny |
It happened, according to Sindbad, after he had been captured by pirates and sold to a rich merchant. The merchant gave him a bow and arrows and ordered him to shoot elephants for their tusks from hid...
Posted by stellar evolution on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:31:00 PST |
Night Meeting |
There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people. And if you wondered what Time ...
Posted by stellar evolution on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:50:00 PST |
The Emerald City of Oz |
"If those people wrote books," Omby Amby remarked with a smile, "it would take a whole library to say the cow jumped over the moon."
"Perhaps some of 'em do write books," asserted the little Wizard. "...
Posted by stellar evolution on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:45:00 PST |
On the Road |
In the gray dawn that puffed ghostlike about the windows of the theater and hugged its eaves I was sleeping with my head on the wooden arm of a seat as six attendants of the theater converged with the...
Posted by stellar evolution on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
