Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”

“Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We…”

“Let this ground be seeded with salt, so that no stalk of corn, or stalk of whea…”

“You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in th…”