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We begin in the sands of Tunis. Following the path of a shooting star.
A faint emerald glow can be seen above the undulating dunes.
We follow the light.
A radiant star portal is found beside a green oasis, we pause for repast and prayer.
Your hair wrapped in white silk, your robes flowing like a turquoise flag.
We sit beside the fresh water, date palms surround us, the Tunis sand still and cool beneath our feet.
We hold hands and say a prayer.
The heavens open like a scroll, we’re transported a million-billion years into the future.
We find a great citadel, gossamer bird-humans flying among the trellis.
The inhabitants are terribly vexed by our power.
Our CYMATIC connection is a blessing to the people.
A power that uplifts, transforms, and upturns the FUTURE.
We are the ones and twos and threes.
You are the sun.
Let us proceed.
Earth’s Last Citadel by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner Book Review
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Earth’s Last Citadel by Henry Kuttner
Book last read: 2024-11-18 15:01:13
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Chapter 3: Prologue
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Highlight: some kind of manmade ship from—”
Notes: Fuck you Elon Musk. You fake fuck.
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Highlight: Don’t shoot,” a girl’s light voice said from the darkness.
Notes: Enter female.
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Highlight: Maybe it’s a ship from outer space. Maybe there’s something inside—
Notes: Lame already UFO op.
Chapter 4: The Citadel
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Highlight: Karen lay a little way from him, her red hair showering across the bent arm pillowing her head. With a slow, impersonal pleasure he liked the way the curved lines of her caught shadow and low light as she sprawled there asleep.
Notes: It’s personal.
Chapter 4: The Citadel
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Highlight: I’m not so sure there is a Germany,
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Highlight: Their quarrel seemed curiously lacking in point now,
Notes: Prison planet revelation.
Chapter 4: The Citadel
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Highlight: they all could see the contours of a human body sailing on winged arms high in the twilight.
Notes: Bird people.
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Highlight: the two men moved forward with wary, shuffling steps into a darkness that blinded every sense like oblivion itself.
Notes: Exploring the ship.
Chapter 4: The Citadel
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Highlight: They might be—property. And the owners might be even less human than they are.”
Notes: Prophecy fulfilled.
Chapter 4: The Citadel
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Highlight: she awoke with a vengeance.
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Highlight: The great pale disc came up slowly, tremendously, overpowering and desolately beautiful in the night of the world.
Notes: Moonrise. I love you.
Chapter 4: The Citadel
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Highlight: Command was in her voice for the first time since their awakening, as if she had only now fully aroused from a dream.
Notes: Take command.
Chapter 4: The Citadel
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Highlight: Against the monstrous circle of the moon the citadel held steady, huge and enigmatic.
Chapter 4: The Citadel
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Highlight: What lives in it now is the spawn of age—twisted abortions of evil. Mindless manbirds, worms gone mad with growth, what else we may never know.
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Highlight: The absolute zero? Slowing down the electronic orbits to stop the liberation of quanta.
Notes: Higgs go fuck yourself Boson god particle.
Chapter 4: The Citadel
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Highlight: Very low refractive index—seems to absorb the moonlight.”
Chapter 4: The Citadel
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Highlight: a quasi-human figure moved through the fog.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: Perhaps her senses were keener than theirs.
Notes: Yes.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: This delicate, hothouse creature
Notes: C02 greenhouse gas required for life. Do not allow them to tax the air.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: Evaya,” she said, her voice like a tinkling silver bell.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: We no longer have any gauge to know what’s human and what is not.
Notes: gmo people. MRNA genetic vaccine therapy.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: All her lines were the lovely ones of the huntress goddess, and the moon behind her should have been crescent, not full.
Notes: Moon talk code speak.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: Here in the light her hair was a pale shade between gold and silver, and with a curious sort of iridescence when she turned her head.
Notes: Your flaxen hair falling down to the small of your back.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: She was lovelier than ever, here in the full golden light, more flawlessly perfect, with the exquisite, inhuman perfection of a flower or a figurine.
Notes: She is the sun.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: It was a garden in stone and crystal; it was a dream in three dimensions—it was anything but a city built by man.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: with a beauty heartbreaking in its sheer perfection.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: warm and confident and glowing with inner radiance.
Notes: Hello. My name is Peter.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: to Mike it was personal humiliation and would demand a personal revenge…
Notes: Facemask BDSM ritual to science.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: Lethe
Notes: Water of Hades makes souls of the dead forget their life.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: Whatever was, was good.
Notes: Fact check.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: “His spells strike without warning. You must be strong—and awake!—to battle him, if battle must come.
Notes: I am strong and awake. Let him come. I am not afraid.
Chapter 5: Carcasilla
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Highlight: nothing had any significance at all except the vibrant responding aliveness
Notes: Thank you for sharing your playlist.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: All who bathe in the fountain live forever,
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: to them humans were—vermin.
Notes: Elohim worship cult.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: It was not, he thought, wise to think very deeply on the subject of the Alien, and of Earth’s ruin.
Notes: Space lasers for chosen people only.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: susurus
Notes: Whispering or rustling. Susurrus.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: billowing darkness that swooped down upon its worshippers
Notes: Endowment collapse.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: Somehow, they’re protected. Somehow, the good Light-Wearers gave them armor to wear
Notes: Gird your loins. Protect the Saints.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: And he fought with all the fury that was in him against this devouring thing that was—he knew it now—starving with an inhuman hunger for the life-force he was fighting to protect.
Notes: Don’t give up the fight.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: How hideous—how unthinkable—that the voice of a being not made of flesh spoke now through these lips of flesh!
Notes: Smart phone death cult.
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Highlight: imperturbably
Notes: Unable to get upset or excited.
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Highlight: the Light-Wearer shimmered like smoke upon the air.
Notes: Pillar of fire at night. Smoke cloud in light.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: we may all be prisoners of the Alien, my boy, and not quite realize it yet
Notes: Set the people free.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: history itself had become a book of blank pages.
Notes: Write new history.
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Highlight: The little seeds of rebellion they thought they’d cut away kept growing back.
Notes: I’ll never stop my righteous rebellion.
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Highlight: They discovered they were men!”
Notes: Show some self respect. Quit being so docile. Get your act together, men.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: It lives on lifeforce—mental energy—and only the energy of intelligent human beings.
Notes: Separate from matrix.
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: the master race, the herrenvolken.
Notes: German
Chapter 6: The Way of the Gods
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Highlight: When the German supreme confidence is undermined—that fanatical, unswerving belief in one’s self—the psychological reaction is violent.
Notes: Indeed.
Chapter 7: The Portals of Light
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Highlight: magnificent as an auroch
Notes: Wild eurasian ox. Auroch.
Chapter 7: The Portals of Light
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Highlight: It wants food, and we are its food,
Notes: !
Chapter 7: The Portals of Light
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Highlight: This is all that remains of the ocean. It follows the moon around the earth.
Notes: High tide.
Chapter 7: The Portals of Light
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Highlight: Now there’s a ship. The one that brought us here.
Notes: Gtfo planet Elon Musk.
Chapter 7: The Portals of Light
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Highlight: We could go to Venus and rebuild the race on a new world.
Notes: Gtfo planet techno space religion.
Chapter 7: The Portals of Light
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Highlight: He’s too enigmatic to fit in anywhere
Chapter 7: The Portals of Light
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Highlight: After a bell’s been heated in a furnace, it won’t vibrate.
Chapter 7: The Portals of Light
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Highlight: The towers of metropolitan New York, the gray cathedrals of London, the white ramparts of Chicago lifting above the blue lake—these were the symbols of a race that built and aspired—a race that had gone down to
Notes: Face mask, lockdown, forced injections.
Chapter 7: The Portals of Light
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Highlight: This had happened before,
Notes: Affirmative.
Chapter 7: The Portals of Light
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Highlight: He thought of the way light kindled behind her exquisite features when she smiled, like an ivory lantern suddenly glowing.
Notes: You are aglow in light.
Chapter 8: The Alien’s Embrace
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Highlight: Lambent radiance like moonlight.
Notes: I love you.
Chapter 8: The Alien’s Embrace
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Highlight: Before them through the bubble domes the violet fire of the fountain rose in brilliance toward the mists of the cavern roof.
Notes: Private swimming grotto.
Chapter 8: The Alien’s Embrace
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Highlight: You are safe here.
Chapter 8: The Alien’s Embrace
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Highlight: You hope to conquer it with noise?
Notes: Yes.
Chapter 8: The Alien’s Embrace
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Highlight: My shield is the power of the mind,
Chapter 8: The Alien’s Embrace
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Highlight: I have stood at the outer edge of its radiance and bathed in the terrible glory of that power
Chapter 8: The Alien’s Embrace
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Highlight: How great a man this was, who could speak so coolly while death marched down upon him!
Notes: FBI at door for social media infractions.
Chapter 8: The Alien’s Embrace
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Highlight: We can’t lose more than our lives.
Chapter 9: Heirs of the Shattered Citadel
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Highlight: This was a being from beyond the stars, a being whose race had swept man like vermin from the earth.
Notes: Space force to the rescue.
Chapter 9: Heirs of the Shattered Citadel
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Highlight: A man dragging a typhoon would be no less impossible.
Chapter 9: Heirs of the Shattered Citadel
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Highlight: It was as if a hollow within him had begun to fill.
Notes: Holy Spirit.
Chapter 9: Heirs of the Shattered Citadel
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Highlight: A sun-circle of light ringed by a corona, and against its burning heart, a double shadow flickering.
Notes: It’s you. Moon shadow.
Chapter 9: Heirs of the Shattered Citadel
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Highlight: —a stellar nova, a newborn sun.
Chapter 9: Heirs of the Shattered Citadel
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Highlight: beings unrobed in the light that had veiled them from human gaze.
Notes: The unveiling.
Chapter 9: Heirs of the Shattered Citadel
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Highlight: When it collapsed, the collapse came suddenly.
Notes: Better get it together. And see whats happening. To uuuuuuuu
Chapter 9: Heirs of the Shattered Citadel
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Highlight: There would be a green world again, fragrant and sweet, shining with dew and rain.
Notes: Our cymatic powers are unstoppable.
Chapter 9: Heirs of the Shattered Citadel
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Highlight: There is one power-source upon Old Earth still living and strong in her extreme age. The great tides that thunder around the planet, following the moon, carving a mighty gorge in the earth as they race on.
Notes: Tidal forces, menstrual cycles, and moon schedule equals approximately 28 days. Coincidence?