Infants lack object permanence? This implies we come primed for a violent, shifting world, a self-killing cosmos whose causality rends itself when not constrained by observation, where friend and treasure are dissolved by inattention—
The cowgirl casts an appraising eye over it. "Does it have lesbians?"
"Oh, tons of 'em! It's a bigotry-free setting."
"Then sign me the fuck up."
The librarian grins. "Alright, I'll get you in there as soon as this microstory we're both in finishes. Which should be right about n-
Wife told me she'd been "really getting into animal security camera videos" recently and I had her show me one to see what she meant. You'll need sound:
“When I was little, I thought clocks made time. I would set them forward whenever I didn't want to wait for something. Then my parents finally told me that wasn't how clocks worked. So I smashed one open. But they stopped me before I could seize the glowing orb I found inside.”
Polly did not want a cracker. Polly wanted vengeance. Polly wanted fire and ruin. Polly wanted an end to the cities of man. But failing that, two crackers might suffice.
So. Daniel Radcliffe möchte also kein erwachsener Harry Potter sein.
Ach, Daniel! Ich wollte auch nie eine erwachsene Rose Wichmann sein. Ich hab's lange herauszögern können, aber irgendwann ist es einfach passiert...