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wonderful, as I died in the end. That was very most sad indeed. But it turns out I am not such a one as
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stays dead forever, especially when I only fell eighty floors to the pavement. I am made of sterner stuff
than that.

Actually, I am made of glass: clear, see-through glass. I am therefore extremely beautiful... more
beautiful than you, but you should not feel bad about that, because you cannot help being opaque. People
who are not beautifulтАФor strong and clever and wise, as I also amтАФshould take comfort from being ugly
and boring, because you will never be Called By Fate to undertake Difficult Adventures. Fate does not
invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if youdo try to save the world (without being beautiful,
strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlesslyтАФand how much adventure is there in that?

I do not die in this story. Those of you who have looked at the last pageтАФwhich is only sensible,
because you wish to make sure I do not make a long speech telling what lessons I have learnedтАФthose
who have looked at the end will know that instead of dying, I wineverything. I defeat the bad people,
am adored by the good people, and get to say, "I told you so," as freely as I wish.

That is the whole point of being in stories: to have a Happy Ending.



My Technique

When I decided to present my story to opaque persons, I endeavored to learn what chronicling
techniques are popular with your kind. My research methods were most diligent... which is to say, I
waited for my friend Festina to leave the room, then instructed her computer to show me any documents
she had written of a narrative nature.

Therefore, I have discovered that the proper way to write for Earthlings is to divide one's tale into
modestly brief sections with titles at the top, such asMy Technique. This is certainly an Effective Literary
Device, especially when addressing persons with a short attention span. The technique also helps one
skim ahead for sections whose titles seem more exciting than the passage one is supposed to read next.
Thus one can jump forward to readFacing A Hellish Maw before coming back toConversing With A
Little Man Whose Sole Amusing Quality Is That He Is Colored Orange.

Most importantly, putting many titles into a story makes it easier to find your place if you happen to use
your book to smash an irksome buzzing fly, and you hit the fly so hard that pieces of metal and plastic go
shooting out of the book mechanism, so then you are forced to put the story chip into a new reader and
you cannot remember where you were.

That happens more often than you might expect.



My Resting Place After I Died