The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.

In a time of destruction, create something.

And I had to get out of hating range.

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.