It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

To be rather than to seem.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.