Steampunk Pagan

“The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Let us have Men, Men who will say a word to their souls and keep it—keep it not when it is easy, but keep it when it is hard—keep it when the storm roars and there is a white-streaked sky and blue thunder before, and one’s eyes are blinded and one’s ears deafened with the war of opposing things; and keep it under the long leaden sky and the gray dreariness that never lifts. Hold unto the last: that is what it means to have a Dominant Idea.”
― George H. Smith, Individualism: A Reader

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It was a non-chain establishment and empty as a consequence, giving up most of its custom to the tax-dodging conglomerate opposite.”
― Mark H. Jackson, The Atlantis Deception