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Special Reserve: Fiction, Poetry, Essays, and More. Short Fiction: TROPE. Brief (lyrical, nonlinear) biography of a steam-powered android, created by a mathematician and bandmaster at the court of Louis XVI, on the eve of the French Revolution. Let the reader judge which is superior—the creature, or its creator. Devised with its primary function of being a metronome for sublime musical performances, the creature's over-calibrated brilliance begs unexpected insights and melancholy apprehensions. Though it lives only a short time, before its violent demise at the hands of frightened and stupid men, it is able to exist in several time periods, including the far future (our time, which is still replete with frightened and stupid people, a fact not mentioned in the story as such, but for which refer to any daily news medium). No telling how far the creature's accomplishments might have reached, given more time. More stories to come. |
