Jack Holt

“They’d been chasing opposite ends of the same thread, only to find they’d been chasing each other.”
― C.K. Chau, Good Fortune

“The Great Disaster, two millennia past, which nearly shattered both earth and humanity, had been the processes of alchemisation itself. First the fires that rained upon the earth: the calcination. The rising tides that swallowed the great cities were the dissolution. The earthquakes that shattered even the mountains were the separation. The aftermath as the survivors emerged from the destruction: the conjunction. The plagues and sickness and starvation that followed: the fermentation. The death toll, so immense that humanity nearly blinked from existence: the distillation. And finally in culmination, the result of Lumen’s great experiment, mankind itself manifesting alchemical resonance was the coagulation.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“If we humans, Prometheus’s creations, controlled fire, Zeus feared we wouldn’t need gods to worship and obey; we could abolish our own creators. Zeus was right. We did. And we are Zeus now. We fear the entities we have created. If a Prometheus among us were to give AI consciousness, the divine spark, then humanity could become a mythic memory, an origin story for the machines to tell themselves, while we crumble into broken statuary alongside Zeus and his pantheon before us.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“The Great Disaster, two millennia past, which nearly shattered both earth and humanity, had been the processes of alchemisation itself. First the fires that rained upon the earth: the calcination. The rising tides that swallowed the great cities were the dissolution. The earthquakes that shattered even the mountains were the separation. The aftermath as the survivors emerged from the destruction: the conjunction. The plagues and sickness and starvation that followed: the fermentation. The death toll, so immense that humanity nearly blinked from existence:”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised