We've taken the world apart...but we have no idea what to do with the pieces...

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

The only frontier left is the world of intangibles. Everything else is sewn up too tight.

In the real world, I'm a recall coordinator in a shirt and tie, sitting in the dark with a mouthful of blood and changing the overheads and slides as my boss tells Microsoft how he choose a particular shade of cornflower blue for an icon.

That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

To the World He Was a LoserBut to Me He Was the World.