Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
The Queen Seeker was back!
Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints.
I'm glad you're here. We've had some. . . interesting developments. " Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger.
Some Queen of the Pipes, I thought. I'd believed I was better than a mindless drone. But I was the mindless one, hiding away. Even now I referred to them as if I didn't belong.
It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.
Ah, Kerry. You've found your heart. Who is she?". . . "A healer, but she's. . . gone.
Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.