I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

“I read Greek myths. I read about far off places, Venice and Paris. I read about…”

“But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes withou…”

“Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear o…”

“But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to…”