He Sat Upon His Throne,

The World Had Teeth And It Could Bite You With Them Anytime It Wanted.

Legends Grow Beards, And Twenty-three Years Is Plenty Of Time To Grow A Long One.

I Felt Lonely And Content At The Same Time. I Believe That Is A Rare Kind Of Happiness.

A Child Blind From Birth Doesn't Even Know He's Blind Until Someone Tells Him. Even Then He Has Only The Most Academic Idea Of What Blindness Is; Only The Formerly Sighted Have A Real Grip On The Thing. Ben Hanscom Had No Sense Of Being Lonely Because He Had Never Been Anything But. If The Condition Had Been New, Or More Localized, He Might Have Understood, But Loneliness Both Encompassed His Life And Overreached It.

A Broken Spoon May Be A Fork In Disguise.