《Muse of Art 》作者： - Piers Anthony【EPUB】

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Piers Anthony Muse of Art Geodyssey: Volume 4 ?? CONTENTS Introduction 1. Curiosity 2. Healing 3. Story 4. Expression 5. Drama 6. Seduction 7. Arrogance 8. Ploy 9. Justice 10. Politics 11. Survival 12. Irony 13. Destruction Author's Note ?? ?? INTRODUCTION ABOUT sixty-five million years ago there was a holocaust on Earth, thought to have been caused by bombardment by meteors and/or monstrous volcanic eruptions, with perhaps attendant rising of gas from the depths of the seas. The mystery has been in the pattern of survivals. There seems to have been considerable randomness. Some reptiles survived, while all the dinosaurs perished. Some mammals survived, though most perished. Some birds survived, similarly, and some fish and other sea life. The survivors hardly seemed better qualified than the species that went extinct. So what was it that set them apart? Sheer luck, or something else? It may indeed have been something else. The survivors may have been those best protected from the fires and freezes and fumes of air, land, and sea. They were the creatures who dwelt in the deep caves: small insectivores, lichen eaters, and those that preyed on them. The environment of such reaches is constant, even when there are dramatic changes above. So it may have been that in time the cave dwellers emerged to discover a depleted realm. It was now safe to go beyond the