..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...

The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.

This was a commercial situation$$$ not some exercise in an Applied Theology course.

Languages: Notice how they almost make sense$$$ some of them.

Five seconds$$$ ten seconds$$$ more change than ten thousand years of a human civilization. A billion trillion constructions$$$ mold curling out from every wall$$$ rebuilding what had been merely superhuman.

They had been at the center of something vast$$$ but as usual with the affairs of the Powers$$$ no one knew quite what had happened$$$ nor the result of the strivings.

Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.

Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.

Sometimes$$$ sitting here in the dark$$$ slowly slowly creating strategy$$$ she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation$$$ things fall apart.