The Passing of the Dragon: A Tor.Com Original

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A painter who fears she is losing her gift seeks inspiration from her favourite poet — and finds something far more extraordinary than a muse. The encounter offers her a vision that could transform her art, but the price is that what she has seen cannot be captured on canvas. The most profound experiences resist representation. Ken Liu's short story is a meditation on the relationship between art and the impossible — the way the most important things we witness are precisely the things we cannot reproduce. A brief, luminous story about the gap between seeing something transcendent and being able to show it to anyone else.