Brightness Reef

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.

Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong.

Of protein, phosphorus, nor even energy is there ever enough to slake all hungers. Therefore, show not affront when diverse beings vie over what physically exists. Only in thought can there be true generosity. So let thought be the focus of your world.

It wasn’t his place to judge the women. Theirs was the harder job, here in the wilderness. His tasks were simple—to hunt, fight, and if need be, to die. Theirs was to go on, whatever it took.

In other words, bright people with too much time on their hands, overly influenced by notions they found in old Earth books.

How strange. Humans always seem so much in control. Is it just a grand act, to fool both others and themselves?