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This great phantasy book has a difficult stumbling block at the beginning. The first few stories are so fantastic, you may be tempted to put it away forever, but if you keep up your work, you will be rewarded with many fine phantasy tales.
I especially enjoyed the Jorkens stories.
In my research, and some strange event of synchronicity that certainly was born from the Holy Spirit, I found this GREAT PHANTASY SPACE RELIGION artifact.
Several HIGH SPACE WIZARDS communicating in the open, kept in HIGH REGARD by their SPACE CHURCH -> The Smithsonian Institution.
Correspondence to/from Arthur C Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, Wernher von Braun, and Lord Dunsany.
It’s clear that Arthur C. Clarke was a brilliant story teller, his “science fiction” conscripted by our evil-e government and alien operatives to feed the moronic sheep. Building the structure of our modern day slavery and deception. NASA/CIA overlords.
FREE THE PEOPLE.
Thank you, Father.
Some of my highlights:
In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales by Lord Dunsany
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Highlight: H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, Fritz Leiber, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Moore herself
Notes: C.L. Moore.
Chapter 4: Introduction
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Highlight: incalculable vortices of space and time that modern science had uncovered.
Notes: Particle and quantum physics. DEAD END SCIENCE.
Chapter 4: Introduction
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Highlight: Another play, Lord Adrian (written in 1922-23 but not published until 1933), comes close to misanthropy. Here an elderly nobleman is injected with the glands from an ape and, rejuvenated, produces an offspring, Lord Adrian; but Adrian’s partial animal ancestry leads him to plan an overthrow of the human race, since “I regard the domination of all life by man as the greatest evil that ever befell the earth.
Chapter 4: Introduction
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Highlight: Arthur C. Clarke and Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence, ed. Keith Allen Daniels (Anamnesis Press, 1998
Chapter 6: The Gods of Pegāna
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Highlight: Seeing that wisdom is not in cities nor happiness in wisdom,
Notes: Boy howdy. Aint it the truth.
Chapter 6: The Gods of Pegāna
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Highlight: For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.
Notes: USA
Chapter 6: The Gods of Pegāna
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Highlight: And after that did men slay men with mists.
Notes: Chemtrails.
Chapter 6: The Gods of Pegāna
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Highlight: Do bullocks goad one another on whom the same yoke rests?
Notes: We’re all in it together?
Chapter 9: In the Land of Time
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Highlight: and this is all that may be told of those adventurous armies that went to war with Time to save the world and the gods, and were overwhelmed by the hours and the years.
Notes: UxSA dod eternal war for profit. Alphabet Inc.gov
Chapter 13: The Sword of Welleran
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Highlight: Nothing now remained to Merimna’s men save their inviolate city and the glory of the remembrance of their ancient fame.
Notes: USA
Chapter 13: The Sword of Welleran
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Highlight: Hear us, ye whose wisdom has discerned so much, and discern for us how a man may escape death when two score horsemen assail him with their swords, all of them sworn to kill him,
Notes: Bill Gates
Chapter 13: The Sword of Welleran
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Highlight: Or discern for us how two men alone may enter a walled city by night, and bring away from it that city’s king,
Notes: Bill Gates
Chapter 13: The Sword of Welleran
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Highlight: See how red the dawn is and how red the spires of Merimna. They are angry with Merimna in Paradise and they bode its doom.
Notes: USA
Chapter 13: The Sword of Welleran
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Highlight: “Ay, you may sing of Welleran, but Welleran is dead and a doom is on your city.
Notes: USA
Chapter 14: The Kith of the Elf-Folk
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Highlight: I want to have a soul to worship God, and to know the meaning of music, and to see the inner beauty of the marshlands and to imagine Paradise.”
Chapter 14: The Kith of the Elf-Folk
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Highlight: most of the humans have a soul already.
Notes: Not all humans have souls.
Chapter 14: The Kith of the Elf-Folk
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Highlight: And they said to her: “If you must have a soul and go and worship God, and become a mortal and die, place this to your left breast a little above the heart, and it will enter and you will become a human.
Chapter 14: The Kith of the Elf-Folk
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Highlight: All the poor have souls. It is all they have.
Chapter 14: The Kith of the Elf-Folk
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Highlight: I would like to be called Terrible North Wind,” said Mary Jane, “or Song of the Rushes.”
Chapter 15: The Ghosts
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Highlight: The great trade routes that littered the years with empty meat tins and cheap novels were far from here.
Chapter 15: The Ghosts
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Highlight: Within, a great damp log upon the fireplace began to squeak and sing, and struck up a whining tune, and a tall flame stood up over it and beat time, and all the shadows crowded round and began to dance.
Chapter 16: The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
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Highlight: Then the magician of that village made spells against those fell dreams; yet still the dreams came flitting through the trees as soon as the dark had fallen, and led men’s minds by night into terrible places and caused them to praise Satan openly with their lips.
Notes: Prophecy fulfilled.
Chapter 16: The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
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Highlight: And a cold fear fell on the hearts of the villagers when they found that their magician had failed them.
Notes: Elon Musk will fail you.
Chapter 16: The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
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Highlight: Who are you that spoil the labour of years all done to the honour of Satan?”
Notes: Bill Gates
Chapter 16: The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
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Highlight: Outside he felt the night air on his face, and found that he stood upon a narrow way between two abysses.
Notes: Narrow path to salvation.
Chapter 16: The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
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Highlight: Heavily in the chamber hung the clammy odour of a large and deadly beast.
Notes: Bill Gates
Chapter 16: The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
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Highlight: And who shall say what hath befallen in the days of long ago?
Notes: Mostly lies.
Chapter 16: The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
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Highlight: only beside him lay an old man, wizened and evil and dead, whose head and hand were severed from his body.
Notes: U know who.
Chapter 18: Idle Days on the Yann
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Highlight: For when the people of this city wake the gods will die.
Chapter 18: Idle Days on the Yann
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Highlight: whether our great and sacred father the Sun shall bring up more life like us from the marshes, or whether all the world shall end to-night.
Notes: Evolution science. 33.3
Chapter 18: Idle Days on the Yann
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Highlight: And soon we saw her white and full of mists, and wreathed with rainbows delicate and small that she had plucked up near the mountain’s summit from some celestial garden of the Sun.
Chapter 19: A Shop in Go-by Street
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Highlight: Licensed to sell weasels and jade earrings.
Notes: Alphabet.gov in phantasy land.
Chapter 19: A Shop in Go-by Street
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Highlight: And I built myself a hut and roofed it over with the huge abundant leaves of a marvellous weed and ate the meat that grows on the targar-tree and waited there three days.
Notes: Apocalypse science.
Chapter 19: A Shop in Go-by Street
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Highlight: And do you know,” she said, “that Life is illusion?” “Of course it is not,” I said, “Life is real, Life is earnest—.” At that both the witch and her cat (who had not moved from her old place by the hearth) burst into laughter.
Chapter 21: The Bride of the Man-Horse
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Highlight: Her father had been half centaur and half god; her mother was the child of a desert lion and that sphinx that matches the pyramids;—
Notes: Halfbreeds.
Chapter 23: Where the Tides Ebb and Flow
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Highlight: Then I knew that the cause of Nature had triumphed, and London had passed away.
Chapter 30: The City
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Highlight: It must be some doom that is going to fall on the city, something has warned them and they have stolen away. Nothing may warn the people.
Chapter 33: The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap
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Highlight: He gave up reading the papers altogether, he lost all interest in politics, he cared less and less for things that were going on around him.
Notes: Be ye separate.
Chapter 34: The City on Mallington Moor
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Highlight: There was none of that hurry of which foolish cities boast, nothing ugly or sordid so far as I could see. I saw that it was a city of beauty and song.
Chapter 34: The City on Mallington Moor
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Highlight: When I tried to ask them by signs whence they had come with their city they would only point to the moon,
Chapter 34: The City on Mallington Moor
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Highlight: where there should have been crescents on the domes of the minarets there were golden suns with rays,
Chapter 34: The City on Mallington Moor
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Highlight: It was morning on Mallington Moor,
Notes: A better Utopia than Bacon’s Atlantis.
Chapter 35: The Bureau d’Echange de Maux
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Highlight: for there was so evil a look in that fattened man, in the hang of his fallen cheeks and his sinful eye, that you would have said he had had dealings with Hell and won the advantage
Notes: U know who.
Chapter 35: The Bureau d’Echange de Maux
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Notes: Blackrock LLC
Chapter 36: The Exiles’ Club
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Chapter 37: Thirteen at Table
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Highlight: “I must tell you, sir, that I have led a wicked life. O, a very wicked life.
Notes: Larry Fink
Chapter 37: Thirteen at Table
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Highlight: like one that has ended weeping because it is vain and has not the consolation even of tears.
Notes: Broken heart contrite spirit.
Chapter 37: Thirteen at Table
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Highlight: And when we recalled that the hunting season was ended we turned our faces to Spring and thought of the new things that try to replace the old.
Chapter 40: The Tale of the Abu Laheeb
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Chapter 40: The Tale of the Abu Laheeb
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Highlight: If Truth cannot stand alone, she scorns the cheap aid of photography.
Notes: NASA moon landing.
Chapter 41: Our Distant Cousins
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Highlight: that it’s my theory, I don’t know what you think, that he actually experienced these, especially the trip to the moon,
Notes: Jules Verne.
Chapter 41: Our Distant Cousins
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Highlight: And if my calculations were wrong and I missed the red planet I shouldn’t want the cash.
Notes: Gtfo Elon Musk
Chapter 41: Our Distant Cousins
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Chapter 41: Our Distant Cousins
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Highlight: witch-doctors making spells, astrologers working out portents, reporters making their articles, and I alone looking at that distant neighbour with lonely thoughts unshared by anyone on our planet.
Chapter 41: Our Distant Cousins
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Highlight: But they were too busy with their learning to look at a new truth.
Notes: Academic garbage.
Chapter 42: The Walk to Lingham
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Highlight: but I knew what it looked like from the sound of its awful steps, coming up crab-like and elephantine and stumping grimly down, and I knew from the sigh in the leaves that the twigs were all bending back as it hurried after me.
Notes: Walking trees.
Chapter 43: The Development of the Rillswood Estate
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Chapter 43: The Development of the Rillswood Estate
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Highlight: I think it’s good for people to look at ruin sometimes, and then to turn away from the dark chasm to find all the world more radiant,
Chapter 46: The Policeman’s Prophecy
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Highlight: It would probably not be long before the traces of man’s supremacy began to grow indistinct, the outlines of all his work in steel or stone being blurred by weeds till they grew as vague as old footprints.
Chapter 46: The Policeman’s Prophecy
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Highlight: Don’t let us be too greatly elated at that reverence that may outlast us, for it will not come so much from our own deserts as from the depths of the fathomless loyalty that is in the heart of the dog.
Chapter 47: The Two Bottles of Relish
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Highlight: I mean you don’t have to quote the whole of the Inferno to show that you’ve read Milton;
Chapter 52: The Pirate of the Round Pond
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Highlight: and knew I must think of the glory of it, and not bother about what it ought to be worth in cash.
Chapter 53: Explanatory Notes
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Highlight: Baron Münchhausen’s Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (1785), compiled by R. E. Raspe.