This shows the dashboard shrine on our bus in India. I'm glad it was there. See the big white truck ahead of us? That's right. The tanker with DANGER written on it, and a big skull and crossbones painted on it. It was filled with ammonia gas. We were stuck together on a railroad track in a big traffic jam.

We've been talking about glass, an issue that was raised at VP. The glass thing exemplifies what we have to deal with in fantasy. It has to be believable to us ("western"-biased) earthlings, but still be fantasy. For some ideas loosely connected with glass windows, shops and homes, please jump ( behind the cut. )