Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.
I don__ ever remember being afraid of __ldness_.There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull all-nighters and keep working and working well; and being smiled at by girls I didn__ know who thought I was cute; and I wish I had the eyesight I had even five years ago_ but that stuff feels pretty trivial. I__ happier than I__e been at any time in my life these days. I have a wonderful wife whom I adore, watched three amazing kids grow into two delightful adults and my favourite teenager, an astonishing number of grand life experiences, I__e made art I__ proud of, I have real, true, glorious friends, and I__e been able to do real good for things I care about, like freedom of speech, like libraries.Sometimes I__l do something like An Evening With Neil and Amanda, or the 8 in 8 project, and completely surprise myself.I miss friends who have died, but then, I__ glad that time gave them to me, to befriend, even for a while, and that I was alive to know them. I knew Douglas Adams, and I knew Roger Zelazny, and I knew John M Ford, and I knew Diana Wynne Jones_ do you know how lucky that makes me?Ah, I__ rabbiting on, and I sound a bit more Pollyannaish than I__ intending to sound: I know the downside of age and the downside of time, and I am sure that the view from age 51 is not the view from age 71.I wish the time hadn__ gone so fast, though. And sometimes I wish I__ enjoyed it more on the way, and worried about it less.
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I don__ ever remember being afraid of __ldness_.There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull all-nighters and keep working and working well; and being smiled at by girls I didn__ know who thought I was cute; and I wish I had the eyesight I had even five years ago_ but that stuff feels pretty trivial. I__ happier than I__e been at any time in my life these days. I have a wonderful wife whom I adore, watched three amazing kids grow into two delightful adults and my favourite teenager, an astonishing number of grand life experiences, I__e made art I__ proud of, I have real, true, glorious friends, and I__e been able to do real good for things I care about, like freedom of speech, like libraries.Sometimes I__l do something like An Evening With Neil and Amanda, or the 8 in 8 project, and completely surprise myself.I miss friends who have died, but then, I__ glad that time gave them to me, to befriend, even for a while, and that I was alive to know them. I knew Douglas Adams, and I knew Roger Zelazny, and I knew John M Ford, and I knew Diana Wynne Jones_ do you know how lucky that makes me?Ah, I__ rabbiting on, and I sound a bit more Pollyannaish than I__ intending to sound: I know the downside of age and the downside of time, and I am sure that the view from age 51 is not the view from age 71.I wish the time hadn__ gone so fast, though. And sometimes I wish I__ enjoyed it more on the way, and worried about it less.
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