I felt, and still feel, that it is important for fantasy to have a grasp of the complexity of fact, if not of… — Samuel R. Delany

But as soon as any of us dies, there is only the monster left. What I had been pursuing was not Belham but the monster called Belham. And what my whole journey had taught me was precisely what sort of monster it was: it was made, as all such monsters are, of contradiction, supposition, miscalculation, impossibility, and ignorance.

The audience’s performance is always more or less stochastic.

The artist’s performance is always more or less aleatory.