Note: WordPress is starting to feed out new software for their blog. Harper’s been playing with it, and has gotten mostly used to it, but I’m just beginning to learn the thing. However, I like some of the gimmicks it apparently has, and Harper’s given me a tip sheet on what to do, as well as the new “style book” for laying out an article, so here goes ….
Graduate school was always a busy time for students; it had been since the medieval days of old Europa on ancient Earth, and it hadn’t changed just because it was now the 48th Century C. E. But wise students always found some kind of time to come up for air from their studies if they wished to preserve both their grades and their sanity. Zana Sherman was no different from other students in that sense. True, as a cyborg, she had a few not-to-sneeze-at advantages over her organic friends, like a brain and body that did not tire in the same way as an organic body did. But the personality and thought processes that resided in that computer body still functioned in ways similar to a flesh-and-blood person; and that part of her still fatigued in ways similar to a flesh-and-blood body. Even in this, some things never seemed to change, no matter how many centuries went by.
Summoned from the waters of the sacred spring, the Guardian watches over the Glade of the Goddess, fending off those who would profane the holy shrine with their violence ….
Always we are following a light, Always the light recedes; with groping hands We stretch toward this glory, while the lands We journey through are hidden from our sight
“Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile – the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn’t learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all.”
Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich, “I’m Dangerous Tonight”
I wanted to pass this one on to Harper, really. She lives up to her handle, and knows so much more about poetry than I do, or is just plain better at researching it than I am. Our Fearsome — that is our Fearless Leader, however, insisted that I write this one since I shot the photos. And, for once, I know a little bit about Welsh poetry — a very little bit, but I have a taste for Dylan Thomas.
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