I know he is important Meat because he is dressed like a fool and doing no work. - Jay Lake

With age came wisdom. Sometimes wisdom came with an ass kicking, too. And nothing could kick ass like the whole world.

Why was he thinking of her now? Fool, fool, fool. The barmaid had cast the oldest spell of all on him, a cantrip requiring only alcohol, sorrow, and time.

Like all worthwhile art, the piece invites us on a journey that has no path nor map, nor even an endpoint. Only a process, footsteps through the mind of an artist now forever lost to us.