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“…where were you just before…Couldn’t have been the same world as the one you’re in now.”
“You seem pretty sure.”
The Cohen elaborated. “Lateral world-sets, other parts of the Creation, lie all around us, each with its crossover points or gates of transfer from one to another…An unscheduled Explosion, introduced into the accustomed flow of the day, may easily open…passages to elsewhere....”
— Jan 10, 2026 02:37PM
“You seem pretty sure.”
The Cohen elaborated. “Lateral world-sets, other parts of the Creation, lie all around us, each with its crossover points or gates of transfer from one to another…An unscheduled Explosion, introduced into the accustomed flow of the day, may easily open…passages to elsewhere....”
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Fleetwood stood with his hands in his pockets, shaking his head slowly. "There are stories…too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking...It is always a hidden place…the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it…”
"Home."
— Jan 01, 2026 04:20PM
"Home."
cycads and ferns
is on page 125 of 1085
“…modern chemistry only starts coming in to replace alchemy around the same time capitalism really gets going…What do you make of that?”
Webb nodded agreeably. “Maybe capitalism decided it didn’t need the old magic anymore…Had their own magic…instead of turning lead into gold, they could take poor people’s sweat and turn it into green-backs, and save that lead for enforcement purposes.”
— Dec 11, 2025 05:37AM
Webb nodded agreeably. “Maybe capitalism decided it didn’t need the old magic anymore…Had their own magic…instead of turning lead into gold, they could take poor people’s sweat and turn it into green-backs, and save that lead for enforcement purposes.”
cycads and ferns
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Lew found himself surrounded by a luminosity new to him, not even observed in dreams, nor easily attributable to the smoke-inflected sun beginning to light Chicago.
He understood that things were exactly what they were. It seemed more than he could bear.
— Dec 03, 2025 06:25AM
He understood that things were exactly what they were. It seemed more than he could bear.
