George Stubbs Lion Devouring a Horse

George Stubbs Lion Devouring a HorseUnknown Artist Sea of Cortez Cabo San LucasLeroy Neiman Washington Square Park
floated in a a remark at him.
'I'm sorry?' he corrected himself. 'It was just that the world ... so beautiful ...'
'Our Spelter is an aesthete,' said Coin, and there was a brief chuckle from one or two wizards who knew what the word meant, 'but as to the world, it could be improved. I had said, Spelter, that everywhere we look we can see cruelty and inhumanity and greed, which tell us that the world is indeed governed badly, does it not?'
Spelter was aware of two dozen pairs of eyes turning to him.
'Um,' he said. 'Well, you can't change human nature.'puddle of black night somehow set into the floor itself, and Spelter knew with a terrible certainty that it was the world, not some image or simple projec­tion. There were cloud patterns and everything. There were the frosty wastes of the Hublands, the Counter­weight Continent, the Circle Sea, the Rimfall, all tiny and pastel-coloured but nevertheless real ...Someone was speaking to him.'Um?' he said, and the sudden drop in metaphorical temperature jerked him back into reality. He realised with horror that Coin had just directed