The machine conceals the machinations.
You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.
One must work with time and not against it.
I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.
To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.