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We can trust nobody. “30 minutes is fine,” she said. I hadn’t known that until that very moment, when I suddenly hated myself for the wrinkles around her eyes and the way her shoulders bent in a little bit even though she was only fifty-seven like me. Yasmine Galenorn, “Man in the Mirror,” Songs of Love & Death.

“Sorry,” he tells the doctor. In any case, I’m talking about mammoths. I think I sympathise with the goals of the spider makers. Here she tells an icy and elegant story about an ancient weapon so potent that to fire it is to destroy the universe—and replace it with another one.