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He saw men and women
with flesh hanging in burned strips carrying the dazed
children from the ashes of what once had been a city. Sol
knew that these images were no dreams, were the very stuff
of the First and Second Holocausts, and in his understanding
knew before the voice spoke in his mind what the answer
was. What it must be.


— The parents have offered themselves. That sacrifice already has been
accepte

Can that be Abraham’s answer to God? That he would be the offering,
not Issaac?


— It could have been Abraham's. It cannot be yours.
— Why?


As if in answer, Sol had the fever-vision of naked adults
filing toward the ovens past armed men, mothers hiding
their children under piles of coats. He saw men and women
with flesh hanging in burned strips carrying the dazed
children from the ashes of what once had be

You know something? This talking about yourself In the
third person is sort of therapeutic.

A person constantly busy accessing on his implants makes a pitiful sight in public and it didn’t take Helenda’s derision to make me realize that if I stayed home I would turn into an All Thing sponge like so many slugs around the Web.”



– The Poet’s Tale, Martin Silenus

For the first time in my life I became political. Days and nights would pass with me monitoring the Senate on farcaster cable or lying tapped into the All Thing . . . No bill was too small, no issue too simple or complex for my input. The simple act of voting every few minutes gave me a sense of having accomplished something. I finally gave up the political obsession only after I realized that accessing the All Thing

The light itself is yellow, rich as liquid butter,
filtered as it is through foliage and fronds eighty meters
above the brown surface of the Kans. | sit on the rusted tin
roof of the center passenger barge and strain to make out
my first glimpse of a tesla tree

You have been chosen to join the pilgrimage to the
Shrike,” said the image of the old CEO whom the press loved
to compare to Lincoln or Churchill or Alvarez-Temp or
whatever other pre-Hegira legend was in historical vogue at
the time. “The Templars are sending their treeship
Yggdrasill’ said Gladstone, “and the evacuation task force
commander has instructions to let it pass. With a three-week
time-debt, you ca