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the Fourth of December, feast of St. Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, gunsmiths, and by not that big of a stretch, dynamiters too.
Water falls, electricity flows—one flow becomes another, and thence into light. So is altitude transformed, continuously, to light.”
“Evolution. Ape evolves to man, well, what’s the next step—human to what? Some compound organism, the American Corporation, for instance, in which even the Supreme Court has recognized legal personhood—a new living species, one that can out-perform most anything an individual can do by himself, no matter how smart or powerful he is.”
“There is light, and there is darkness.” “Let me guess. The Church of England is light, and everything else—” “Not quite how it sorts out. Differences among the world religions are in fact rather trivial when compared to the common enemy, the ancient and abiding darkness which all hate, fear, and struggle against without cease”—he made a broad gesture to indicate the limitless taiga all around them—“Shamanism. There isn’t a primitive people anywhere on Earth that can’t be found practicing some form of it. Every state religion, including your own, considers it irrational and pernicious, and has
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If one spent one’s whole day working and sleeping, there would be no time for observation, let alone thought . . . would there.”
