'So crowded with limits, filling the frame.'
'A bump-stage of frightfulness, a wicked idea of foreboding...'
'I did have an inkling of what was about to occur; as if written in the stars or traced in the sand - sudden enough, and then blown away.'
'I was there when the light of the day broke over the streets below.'
'A cave painting; one depicting any of your hundred intentions...'
'The man was a singular image, intent on achieving himself. I watched, warily, through clear glass, all that I thought I was seeing. I surmised that much of it was, or could be, pure illusion. I watched nonetheless.'
'One time, there was an ocean of matter - composed of things above my head...'
'Magister Ludi this was not.'
'A barbarian paradise awaiting its own George Appo.'
'One thing was for sure - there was someplace I hadn't been.'
'I had staged a scene near the graven image of a lion - live Mankind next to stone.'
'Elastic, with amazement like glee, everything seemed stretched to its limit...'
'Only an old establishment of time and presence could make me stay here - amidst an entire array of time and the world running down: reflections of a tired heart.'
'Some hundreds of mistakes had been made, but nothing roiled the waters - your name, like the others, was etched permanently on some placid plaque.'
'The turtle was sitting on a log, I swear.'
'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, right then, seemed as real as anything else to me. I shuddered to think of the woods and forests nearby, long gone and forgotten - though this funny and awkward little tale lived on, orphaned and abandoned by reality so long ago.'