I am a person of extraordinary abilities, and I have always known this. No ordinary mind could have seen, even as a child, through the delusionally sentimental fog of optimism, romance, love of family, devotion to 'god', self-help, artistic ideals and other such...
"Basel Vasselschnauzer, literary critic extraordinaire, had become a floor sitter!" Now, we don't usually share quotes from The Chronicles of Halycon Sage, but someone recently inquired how Basel Vasselschnauzer, surely the most dignified man on the planet, had come...
As a young alien Squid remarked recently, there's always more to say about any topic. Anything at all can be explored into infinite depth. Everything is a hologram, containing copies and images of itself down to and beyond the microscopic level so that, with the...
SQUID: You ask what was I thinking during that historic first meeting? Well, it could have been historic, but for the conduct of the Eartheans later that same minor-sun-cycle. As it turned out, it's a wonder we even . . . but I have been instructed not to say too...
" 'You, kid!' she called out an open window. 'Get everybody to the Dirty Dog in thirty minutes. Step on it!' 'Step on what?' asked Nuri. He was brilliant, though very young, and did not have a particularly literal mind, but the constant switching between Arabic,...
What if you were writing an imaginary world and you suddenly found out it might just be real, that every dog, cat, buzzard and eagle in it had feelings and you were responsible for them all? And for all their eggs and relatives and ecosystems? What if some funny...
Baptized by a walrus, snuffled by an elephant . . . and don't get me started on parrots! If you've read The Book of Squidly Light or The Life and Times of Halycon Sage, you might know that I love animals. And earlier in life, spaced decades apart, I had sudden...
Dear Readers,* a glance in the mirror this morning reveals that my nose looks just like a potato! A whole, boiled potato! Don't tell me that I'm getting older and these things happen -- besides being known for my brilliant writing and my exquisite taste in clothing...
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