Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

It was deliciously pagan.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.