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Suppose that every human being who has ever lived, along with some pre-humans, and some extraterrestrials who may have lived on earth for a time (shortly before human beings became extinct on Earth) had, upon their deaths, their "souls" (or their "life energy" or whatever you want to call it) transferred to new healthy young copies of their bodies and were then somehow resurrected on the grassy banks of a huge seemingly endlessly long river on an unknown alien planet. This is the premise of the
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“Purgatory is hell with hope.”
TYSBG is a compact novel about resurrection, humanity, human nature, and of course – aliens. I give nothing away by saying so. Richard Burton, a fictionalized version of the 19th century polyglot, awakens nude on a riverbed with countless others. Humans from all eras and geographies appear to have been reincarnated in such a way. There is even an alien or two among them.
Soon Neanderthal and 20th century Jew and 19th century Englishman and 21st century American are t ...more
TYSBG is a compact novel about resurrection, humanity, human nature, and of course – aliens. I give nothing away by saying so. Richard Burton, a fictionalized version of the 19th century polyglot, awakens nude on a riverbed with countless others. Humans from all eras and geographies appear to have been reincarnated in such a way. There is even an alien or two among them.
Soon Neanderthal and 20th century Jew and 19th century Englishman and 21st century American are t ...more
Feb 22, 2010
Trice
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