Show Business
according to Fritz Leiber
(Leiber's "Changewar" is my
favorite mythology.)
From the Changewar story
"No Great Magic" (1963) Part V:
Even little things are
turning out to be great things
and becoming intensely interesting.
Have you ever thought about
the properties of numbers?
— The Maiden
"I've had this idea– it's just a sort of fancy, remember– that if you wanted to time-travel and, well, do things, you could hardly pick a more practical machine than a dressing-room and a sort of stage and half-theater attached, with actors to man it…."
For the remainder of this section
of Leiber's story, see
Related material:
The previous entry,
The Eight, and
Now We See Wherein
Lies the Pleasure.