comment: | \cenquote{“I mean,” they say, “There’s so much wrong in the world. Shouldn’t someone have to hurt?”}{---``The Sickness''} \bigquote{“And what does it mean,” said Mr. Thornton, “to be an isn’t?” “It means that perhaps if you wish us to end your wars, and your famines, and your suffering,” the fairy said, “you should clap harder, Mr. Thornton; or wish harder; or burn the brighter in yourselves.”}{---“ ‘Isn’ts’ ”, from the Gibbelins’ Tower Archives} \bigquote{Jane scans the siggort. It has two wings. It is covered in feathers. Its stomach is roly-poly. It has two long legs. It has a wheel of knives. It’s innocently vivisecting passersby and leaving their corpses for investigators to discover. It has a long yellow beak. It uses its beak for smiling. It can also sing.}{---“Scanning Things”, a performance of the Gibbelins’ Tower Theater Company} \bigquote{The wogly has pale blue skin and two winky eyes. It’s shaped like a torus. Woglies say “hiss!” Inside the wogly it’s empty. Integrity leaks out of the universe into the wogly. It’s not eating moral integrity — it’s eating the integrity things have that make them the way they are. It’s a serious problem, but someone else will deal with it.}{---“Scanning Things”, a performance of the Gibbelins’ Tower Theater Company} \bigquote{Nonexistent bees aren’t real. It’s very important that you remember that. If you ever see a nonexistent bee, you’re just someone the Gibbelins’ Tower Theater Company made up. It’s tragic, but you know how it is! If you were a nonexistent bee, you’d harbinge fictionality too. You’d harbinge fictionality, and you’d love it. You know you would. It’d be like sex, chocolate pie, and bean bags. All rolled into one.}{---“Rolled. Into. One.”, a performance of the Gibbelins’ Tower Theater Company} \cenquote{“It turned out,” Martin says, and he stands, and he spins his chair, “ser monster, that if you’d wanted the world, you should have been in the theater, all along.”} \cenquote{"The ragged things catch you up, in the wrong place, at the wrong time."}