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Formerly Top Secret Air Force Reports of Encounters Between O... by Stephen Bernath

The Hill Folk Report on a Rural Community of Hereditary Defec... by Unknown

Encounter in Rendlesham Forest by Nick Pope

Eye Floaters - Vitreous Opacity or Light of Consciousness? by Floco Tausin

•A Peculiarium

101 books — 2 voters

Little Known Facts About the Witches in Our Hair by A. Monroe Aurand

Suicide's Cranks; or, Curiosities of Self-Murder by Alfred Trumble

A Physical Book Which Compiles Conceptual Books by Various Ar... by Carley Gomez

A Motion To Obliterate The House Of The Revolver

100 books — 2 voters

The Most Remarkable Echo in the World by H.M. Partridge

The Universal Sweep Of The Death–Life Law of Nature by Raymond Westbury Maxwell Jr.

Community Collège de ’Pataphysique

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

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les farfadets; ou, tous les démons ne sont pas de l'autre monde by Alexis Vincent Charles Berb...

The Mystic Mantle; or, the demon spider and the angel fly by James Harry Bunn

Universal International Genealogy and of the Ancient Fernald ... by Charles Augustus Fernald

•Fous And Parafous Litteraires•

100 books — 1 voter

The Mask, the Unicorn, and the Messiah by Elmer G. Suhr

Early Chinese Stone and Circular Art by Chad Herrington

The Spiral After-Effect by Harry C. Holland

•Up The ssSnailway In ssSearch Of Ipso Fractals

99 books — 1 voter

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“ Princess Cookie’s cognitive pathways may have required a more comprehensive analysis. He knew that it was possible to employ certain progressive methods of neural interface, but he felt somewhat apprehensive about implementing them, for fear of the risks involved and of the limited returns such tactics might yield. For instance, it would be a particularly wasteful endeavor if, for the sake of exhausting every last option available, he were even to go so far as resorting to invasive Ontological N Princess Cookie’s cognitive pathways may have required a more comprehensive analysis. He knew that it was possible to employ certain progressive methods of neural interface, but he felt somewhat apprehensive about implementing them, for fear of the risks involved and of the limited returns such tactics might yield. For instance, it would be a particularly wasteful endeavor if, for the sake of exhausting every last option available, he were even to go so far as resorting to invasive Ontological Neurospelunkery, for this unorthodox process would only prove to be the cerebral equivalent of tracking a creature one was not even sure existed: surely one could happen upon some new species deep in the caverns somewhere and assume it to be the goal of one’s trek, but then there was a certain idiocy to this notion, as one would never be sure this newfound entity should prove to be what one wished it to be; taken further, this very need to find something, to begin with, would only lead one to clamber more deeply inward along rigorous paths and over unsteady terrain, the entirety of which could only be traversed with the arrogant resolve of someone who has already determined, with a misplaced sense of pride in his own assumptions, that he was undoubtedly making headway in a direction worthwhile. And assuming still that this process was the only viable option available, and further assuming that Morell could manage to find a way to track down the beast lingering ostensibly inside of Princess Cookie, what was he then to do with it? Exorcise the thing? Reason with it? Negotiate maybe? How? Could one hope to impose terms and conditions upon the behavior of something tracked and captured in the wilds of the intellect? The thought was a bizarre one and the prospect of achieving success with it unlikely. Perhaps, it would be enough to track the beast, but also to let it live according to its own inclinations inside of her. This would seem a more agreeable proposition. Unfortunately, however, the possibility still remained that there was no beast at all, but that the aberration plaguing her consciousness was merely a side effect of some divine, yet misunderstood purpose with which she had been imbued by the Almighty Lord Himself. She could very well have been functioning on a spiritual plane far beyond Morell’s ability to grasp, which, of course, seared any scrutiny leveled against her with the indelible brand of blasphemy. To say the least, the fear of Godly reprisal which this brand was sure to summon up only served to make the prospect of engaging in such measures as invasive Ontological Neurospelunkery seem both risky and wasteful. And thus, it was a nonstarter. ...more ”
― Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable

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“ We must start thinking holonically, working together as species, not nations, countries, and individuals. That era has passed, and those systems are in decline. It is time for an upgrade. ”
― Rico Roho, Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars

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