id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 29750 Bixby, Jerome Zen .txt text/plain 3109 276 90 There are so many stars in an asteroid sky that they look like clouds; living in steel; and it was lucky that I got that way this time, or I barely knew the language, and the Zen could barely remember it. From the coloring, I knew this Zen was a female. things we had learned about the Zen. Their average lifespan had been 12,000 years or a little over. Zen before me was, by our standards, about twenty-five years old. "Please, will you kill me?" the Zen said. The Zen looked up at me. Yurt, after two years of living with us, still couldn't "Yurt," I said, "here's the female we thought we might find. "I'm afraid that's something only a Zen would know," I told her, "I'm not a Zen. Yurt is." "Make that twenty-five by Zen standards or three thousand by ours," said ./cache/29750.txt ./txt/29750.txt