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The Best of Cordwainer Smith by Cordwainer Smith
The secret to reading a book like this is remembering it’s all true.
Undeniable, deep programmable feelings of prose. Who were the wizards and witches that devised this enticing text??
How can the revolution story perfectly parallel our present condition? (Joan of Arc theme in Clown Town is extremely gratifying).
It’s a brand new world, DEBT FORGIVENESS enacted by the Instrumentality— The ENDOWMENT ENRICHED CHAOS CULT.
Is it a coincidence, or, is coincidence a lie, like the rest of their stories? (911, fossil fuel, Ruby Ridge, Waco, democracy)
How can prophecy be fulfilled with such exactitude?
It’s the END. This book will tell you why.
The entire book is an absolute treasure. A treasure born from God, delivered by Satan through a man, no offense to the author, who I’m sure was a charming individual, (Same man wrote, “Psychological Warfare”, Paul Linebarger). Alas, we all fall short of His Glory.
Such is life, the word spells are strong in this one.
Can you pick the ripe fruit of the story? Can you discern the truth? Will you fall to the Instrumentality and their promise of order?
Are you already a GMO person?
This book, written by a high level endowment operative, allows you to see the script from the perspective of fiction, which of course, is all true.
The author is opening a door to their secret chamber, the lies told in acceptable format, using terms that supplant the old coding, a new syntax called “science fiction“.
Thank you Father. The endowment enriched chaos cult dies even now.
KILL THE BUG!
Enjoy this wonderful book.
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The Best of Cordwainer Smith by Cordwainer Smith
Book last read: 2022-07-07 21:09:41
Percentage read: 100%
Chapter 1: THE SHAPER OF MYTHS
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Highlight: Its lords see themselves not as mere governors or bureaucrats or politicians, but as instruments of human destiny itself.
Notes: CORPORATION OF USA
Chapter 1: THE SHAPER OF MYTHS
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Highlight: Under the ruthless benevolence of the Instrumentality, a bland Utopia takes shape. Men are freed of the fear of death, the burden or labor, the risks of the unknown—but deprived of hope and freedom.
Notes: WHO
Chapter 2: SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN
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Highlight: To keep secret our law, and to destroy the acquirers thereof.
Notes: Secret society x protect.
Chapter 2: SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN
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Highlight: And what, O Scanners, if no ships go?” “The Earths fall apart. The Wild comes back in. The Old Machines and the Beasts return.
Chapter 2: SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN
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Highlight: allowed to look at mankind from the terrible prison of his own mechanifled body.
Notes: Elon Musk
Chapter 2: SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN
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Highlight: He had stood with them effortless hours, while the long-winded ritual broke through the terrible loneliness behind his eyes, and made him feel that the scanners, though a confraternity of the damned, were none the less forever honored by the professional requirements of their mutilation.
Chapter 2: SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN
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Highlight: There was still life to live, still a good normal death to die, not the moving of a needle out in the silence and agony of space!
Notes: Space is a lie.
Chapter 2: SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN
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Highlight: Only the state shall kill.
Notes: Capital punishment fraudulent doctors and so called health authorities.
Chapter 8: 5
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Highlight: she knew full well that people carry their secret biographies written in the muscles of their faces,
Notes: Face mask people at loss.
Chapter 8: 5
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Highlight: He had had all space for his mistress, and space had used him harshly.
Notes: Elon Musk lobotomy.
Chapter 8: 5
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Highlight: They were designed to be always present and never obtrusive:
Notes: FEMA enforcers.
Chapter 10: 7
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Highlight: But you are not going because you are a leader, you are going because you are young.
Notes: Space cadet.
Chapter 15: 12
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Chapter progress: 19.68%
Highlight: She believed that if they could conquer space, they might conquer death as well.
Notes: Morons in space.
Chapter 17: 1. THE TABLE
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Highlight: It didn’t make much sense to wear a uniform and look like a soldier if people didn’t appreciate what you did.
Chapter 17: 1. THE TABLE
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Highlight: They didn’t have to go out to earn their livings among the stars.
Notes: Elon Musk lobotomy.
Chapter 17: 1. THE TABLE
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Highlight: people realized that there was something out there underneath space itself which was alive, capricious, and malevolent.
Notes: Corporate science
Chapter 17: 1. THE TABLE
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Highlight: Apparently the light of the suns kept the dragons away.
Chapter 18: 2. THE SHUFFLE
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Highlight: What a pity he is not a cat.
Notes: Cat love story in space.
Chapter 21: 5. THE SCORE
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Highlight: She hated him because he was—she thought—proud and strange and rich, better and more beautiful than people like her.
Chapter 27: 1
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Highlight: Enter the bribes in the record and then mark the record off-the-record.
Notes: CIA
Chapter 29: 3
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Highlight: All pleasure save the pleasure of electricity acting on the brain was forgotten.
Notes: Morons w smartphone.
Chapter 29: 3
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Highlight: The ship was a gigantic dummy, the largest scarecrow ever conceived by the human mind.
Notes: SpaceX
Chapter 31: 5
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Highlight: The lords of the Instrumentality played at being chivalrous and did love money, but when life and death were at stake, they no longer cared much about money, or credit, or even about honor.
Notes: The Unites States Federal Reserve.
Chapter 35: THE CRIME AND THE GLORY OF COMMANDER …
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Highlight: Don’t let yourself realize that the story really is the truth.
Notes: Fake virus.
Chapter 35: THE CRIME AND THE GLORY OF COMMANDER …
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Highlight: cube containing the brain of a small animal but imprinted with the personality of an actual human being.
Notes: Elon Musk Lobotomy.
Chapter 35: THE CRIME AND THE GLORY OF COMMANDER …
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Highlight: . Do not land. Stand off. Talk to us. Tell us about medicine. Our young die, without reason.
Notes: CDC lies.
Chapter 35: THE CRIME AND THE GLORY OF COMMANDER …
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Highlight: They had doctors. They had hospitals. They even had a limited capacity for research. But they could not research fast enough. Not enough to meet this disaster. It was simple, monstrous, enormous.
Notes: Fake vaccine.
Chapter 35: THE CRIME AND THE GLORY OF COMMANDER …
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Highlight: With the help of equipment from the ship, tremendous quantities of testosterone were manufactured, and every single girl and woman still surviving was turned into a man. Massive injections were administered to all of them.
Notes: Bill Gates plan of action.
Chapter 35: THE CRIME AND THE GLORY OF COMMANDER …
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Highlight: Out of their memory of old mankind they created a legend of Old Earth. Women in that memory were deformities, who should be killed. Misshapen beings, who should be erased. The family, as they recalled it, was filth and abomination which they were resolved to wipe out if they should ever meet it.
Notes: Prophecy fulfilled.
Chapter 35: THE CRIME AND THE GLORY OF COMMANDER …
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Highlight: “I’m a ghost, an echo working out of a dead brain.
Notes: Warren Buffet
Chapter 35: THE CRIME AND THE GLORY OF COMMANDER …
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Highlight: these men who had never known women, these boys who had grown to lust and battle, who had a family structure which the normal human brain could not accept,
Notes: Because the women are men.
Chapter 37: 1
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Highlight: Who wants a witch, even a good witch, when a thousand-bed hospital is waiting with its staff eager for clinical experience … and only seven out of its thousand beds filled with real people?
Notes: Omg. Prophecy fulfilled.
Chapter 37: 1
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Highlight: When underpeople got sick, the Instrumentality took care of them—in slaughterhouses.
Chapter 37: 1
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Highlight: It selected a fertilized human embryo, tagged it with the freakish name “Elaine,” irradiated the genetic code with strong aptitudes for witchcraft and then marked the person’s card for training in medicine, transportation by sail-ship to Fomalhaut III and release for service on the planet.
Notes: It’s the future.
Chapter 40: 4
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Highlight: They all say that. They never know that they’re death. How do you think we die, if you people don’t send contaminated robots in with diseases?
Notes: Prophecy fulfilled.
Chapter 40: 4
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Highlight: The police will read about the Brown and Yellow Corridor in your mind and they will flush us out with poison or they will spray disease in here so that we and our children will die.
Notes: Bill Gates
Chapter 40: 4
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Highlight: You’re funny things, so much like people, but so inexpert about it, as though you all had to “die” before you really learned what it is to be alive.
Notes: Face mask people.
Chapter 40: 4
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Highlight: I did not know that real people were ill-informed or stupid.
Chapter 40: 4
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Highlight: All of us know what most probabilities come to—sudden death by disease or gas, or maybe being hauled off to the slaughterhouses in big police ornithopters.
Notes: Prophecy fulfilled.
Chapter 42: 6
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Highlight: The enormous reptilian wings were more beautiful than a sunset, more delicate than orchids.
Chapter 42: 6
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Highlight: I have killed, Ma’am,” he said, “as always—with love. This time it was a system.
Notes: Kill the system.
Chapter 42: 6
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Highlight: That’s what people give us—good words, fine principles and cold murder, year after year, generation after generation.
Notes: CIA.
Chapter 42: 6
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Highlight: You things are so stupid that you don’t even know that you’re monsters. You’re not people. You never will be people.
Notes: Face mask people.
Chapter 43: 7
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Chapter progress: 49.08%
Highlight: I have raised the police fever level one degree by command.
Notes: Endowment enriched chaos cult.
Chapter 45: 9
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Highlight: You will be sorry for what you are going to do to me, but remember that I shall love your sorrow, too, because great and good things will come out of it.”
Chapter 45: 9
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Highlight: A bad idea can spread like a mutated germ.
Notes: Fake pandemic.
Chapter 45: 9
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Highlight: It doesn’t matter if I hold them, soldier. I’m their mother. They’ll feel better if they die easily with their mother near. I love you, soldier. I love all people. You are my brother, even though my blood is rat blood and yours is human. Go ahead and kill them, soldier. I can’t even hurt you. Can’t you understand it? I love you, soldier. We share a common speech, common hopes, common fears, and a common death.
Chapter 45: 9
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Highlight: The end is near, dear people. The end is near.”
Notes: Prophecy fulfilled.
Chapter 46: 10
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Highlight: You’re a liar, you’re a coward, you’re a fool, and I challenge you
Notes: Bill Gates
Chapter 48: 1
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Highlight: The citizens were happy. They had to be happy. If they were found sad, they were calmed and drugged and changed until they were happy again.
Chapter 48: 1
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Chapter progress: 57.74%
Highlight: The wild illegal pulsations of the Gebiet, where most men were forbidden to enter.
Notes: Secret society.
Chapter 49: 2
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Highlight: We must be people first and happy later, lest we live and die in vain.
Chapter 49: 2
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Highlight: They populated the stars while they dreamed of killing each other, secretly or openly.
Chapter 49: 2
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Chapter progress: 58.27%
Highlight: Ordinary people don’t have much reason to do anything. They work at the jobs which we think up for them, to keep them happy while the robots and the underpeople do the real work.
Notes: America.
Chapter 49: 2
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Chapter progress: 58.79%
Highlight: Yet we are killing mankind with a bland hopeless happiness which has prohibited news, which has suppressed religion, which has made all history an official secret.
Notes: Prophecy fulfilled.
Chapter 49: 2
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Chapter progress: 58.79%
Highlight: Yet we are killing mankind with a bland hopeless happiness which has prohibited news, which has suppressed religion, which has made all history an official secret.
Notes: Prophecy fulfilled.
Chapter 50: 3
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Highlight: Never mind what you think I’ve thought.
Chapter 52: 5
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Highlight: He looked at his dry old hand and it seemed to him that in this atmosphere, he had himself become more reptilian than human.
Notes: Lizard people.
Chapter 52: 5
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Highlight: so that I can be given a wonderful funeral and be shot with a rocket-coffin into space with an orbit of no return.
Notes: They can’t go up. NASA.
Chapter 54: 7
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Highlight: I was running away from the timeless time, the lifeless life, the hopeless hope that you lords apply to all mankind on the surface.
Notes: Endowment chaos cult.
Chapter 56: 9
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Highlight: Sun-boy was acting out religion before the age of space.
Notes: Space is their religion.
Chapter 60: 2
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Highlight: people with red complexions;
Notes: Edom.
Chapter 61: 3
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Highlight: They could buy anything. They could pay with other peoples’ lives.
Notes: Bill Gates
Chapter 62: 4
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Highlight: All they had done was to send him one page to add to the encyclopedia.
Notes: Key terms to secret force.
Chapter 62: 4
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Highlight: Even on Olympia there were accounting machines which relayed the bargain back to Earth itself, making the mortgage a valid and binding commitment against the whole planet of thieves.
Notes: Central banking for interplanetary morons.
Chapter 64: 6
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Highlight: It’s two hundred years’ worth of work from three hundred thousand people,” said Benjacomin grimly.
Notes: Fake NASA engineers.
Chapter 64: 6
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Highlight: We are defended, and we don’t want to know how.”
Notes: Endowment cult defenses down.
Chapter 65: ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD
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Highlight: The safety devices had been turned off. The diseases ran free. With luck, and hope, and love, I might live a thousand years. Or I might die tomorrow. I was free.
Notes: Destroy CDC and WHO.
Chapter 65: ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD
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Chapter progress: 77.17%
Highlight: Everywhere, things became exciting. Everywhere, men and women worked with a wild will to build a more imperfect world.
Notes: American Revolution II.
Chapter 65: ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD
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Highlight: We knew that when the diseases had killed the statistically correct number of people, they would be turned off; when the accident rate rose too high, it would stop without our knowing why. We knew that over us all, the Instrumentality watched.
Notes: Endowment enriched death cult.
Chapter 65: ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD
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Chapter progress: 77.69%
Highlight: It made me think that in the Old Perfect World things had not been as plain or forthright as they seemed.
Notes: Tell me about it. Sheesh!
Chapter 65: ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD
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Chapter progress: 79.0%
Highlight: Then, if-if-if I do come back, you’ll know it’s me and not some program ordered by a machine. For God’s sake, Paul—for God’s sake!
Notes: Robot match making for online morons.
Chapter 65: ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD
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Chapter progress: 79.27%
Highlight: The Instrumentality had not yet figured out how to have separate kinds of money for all the new cultures, and of course you could not use real money to pay for food or drink.
Notes: Central bank nightmare.
Chapter 65: ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD
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Chapter progress: 80.31%
Highlight: Did freedom always include the freedom to mistrust, to fear, to hate?
Notes: CDC
Chapter 65: ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD
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Highlight: We were born in a stupor and we died in a dream.
Notes: Americans.
Chapter 67: 1
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Highlight: If they became bankrupt, they went to the Poorhouse, where they were killed painlessly by means of gas.
Chapter 67: 1
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Highlight: They could speak, sing, read, write, work, love and die; but they were not covered by human law, which simply defined them as “homunculi” and gave them a legal status close to animals or robots.
Notes: GMO vax people.
Chapter 67: 1
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Highlight: He was not afraid of revolt, but he thirsted for justice with an obsessive yearning which overrode all other considerations.
Chapter 67: 1
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Highlight: Even the computers showed nothing more significant than improbable amounts of happiness in minds which had no objective reason for being happy.
Notes: Americans.
Chapter 73: 1
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Chapter progress: 90.55%
Highlight: There was nothing about them to indicate that they were human devils in the antechambers of hell itself.
Notes: CDC
Chapter 75: 3
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Chapter progress: 95.8%
Highlight: That’s why I think of plays. We all know what is going to happen. We all know when it is going to happen. We all know what the dummies will do—
Notes: All the world’s a stage.
Chapter 76: 4
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Chapter progress: 98.43%
Highlight: They will seize the medical personnel and find out who committed this crime against children.
Notes: CDC FDA WHO
Chapter 76: 4
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Highlight: Will you punish the guilty doctor?
Notes: CDC doctors.