Sentenced: Shiri’s 5-4-14 Edition
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Page 91, paragraph 7:
Mr. Vincent to Miss Ellsworth…
” ‘I am a glamourist, Miss Ellsworth. I create illusions in an effort to transport my viewers to another place. So I do not like it when other people expose how my illusions work. Each person who looks at what I do takes my work away from me.’ ”
He’s very wise, is Ms. Robinette Kowal’s Mr. Vincent. In a world of instant gratification, a world where a click can bring you whatever you want, in which we all run from place to place, packing every last moment, we sometimes forget to stop and look at the whole. We’re so desperate for explanations, we forget that there are things in the world meant to be a beautiful as they appear; we don’t always need to see the wires and toggles and touch screens.
Sometimes, kids, we just need profound gorgeousness.
Or a little sweet, sweet brain candy.
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