It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow - Diane Duane

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Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

Diane Duane

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

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You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’” He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.

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A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.

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How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

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All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon

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Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!

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