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The Goddess aka Atana. She is wandering and is captured by soldiers in masks(nesters). They take her to there underground world. There is escapes, is killed, has a bad dream and then resuscitated by nesters who believe in the pyramid book. They escape to lower depths with the roachers. Atana meets a reject clone and she enters her dream. There she sits on the pyramid throne. She is the goddess

The pyramid transport Atan + Stel to Edena. They are frightened by nature and don’t trust the abundant fruit. They have hormone suppressors and organ transplants. They go native and Aten is Atena. Stel puts the moves and Atana runs away. Stel searches and goes to a dreamworld. He fights the dream shadow. Stel is the lion. He goes towards the meeting point. The sea.

Stel (the pilot) and Atan (the manager) land on a deserted meteor. The meteor crashes to the planet. There in the wasteland they see a distant light show. Stel gets his citroen and they drive to the light. It’s a pyramid with thousands of aliens surrounding it. They’ve been there for thousands of years. The pyramid like Stel and he drives it to edena

Repairs. Stel gets caught in a Waymasters core. There he visit himself as a child and helps repair his toy submarine. This fixes the waymasters vehicle. That and Stel’s “good heart”. “I do have a small psykik problem…but I need a mekanik”

The intro and an about page including an about page of the first story cycle “repairs”Stel and Atan are asexual protagonist who have organ transplants. In this future they discover the basic beauty of humanity. Moebius isn’t clear with narrative. He says here “I’ve done my part, now it’s your turn to be creative.” Clear line style

Shaft beats the wrap and chills out with his middle class accountants family. He gets a police badge and heads to the airport to cool out.

Somehow shaft got to the Thomson building and killed the mafia dudes. Picked up Beatrice and made out of the building before Willie Joe lit the gasoline fire

Shaft, Buford’s men and Willie Joe go to Washington square to burn it down. Shaft sings “shaft is gonna light your fire” aka the doors.

“3 guineas” beat the living hell out of Shaft and leave him on Knocks’s doorstep. Shaft is all pain and demands Doc Powell, an old boxer to patch him up like a fighter. Shaft is a cracked shell but demands Buford to provide him with 20 men to go down the Thompson at and fight the mafia. It can’t be Knocks’s criminal men. It has to be Buford’s revolutionaries

Shaft doesn’t think. He acts and reflects later. He only reflects on the results. Shaft and Charlie talk in the coffee shop. 6 cops have joined them and are observing in the corner, near the hippies who shaft despises. Beatrice for Harlem. That’s the deal. Charlie walks shaft through a dirty tenement to Beatrice. Before opening the door Shaft shoots Charlie in the head.

Shaft runs thru Greenwich to lil Italy and tells 4 bartenders “tell the mafia shaft is looking for them”. He goes to a coffee shop mcdougal and Bleecker and sits and waits. An Italian “as hard” as Shaft meets him at 4:18am. This chapter had good late nite NYC descriptions. It pains shaft and a hard animal. He has no plan, he is just improvising. He is a BA or a dumb bastard.

Shaft don’t sleep. It’s 3:00am. He is done with the bone zone and needs to get something done before the bars close up around 3:30. He leaves Valerie in his apartment

Shaft takes home a “spinner” named Valerie and the bone in the shower. Meanwhile Anderozzi tells the commissioner to wait for shaft. Buford holds a rally about killing a pig today. And Carmen Caroli is in jail with a headache. We learn his bro Charlie is in charge of the mob and they have a girl they are drugging every 8 hours.

It was the Italian mob that shot up Burke’s place. They were after Shaft. This is an entertaining chapter where Shaft pretends to be a bartender to trick 2 Mob hit men who are there to kill shaft. It ends with the police arresting them, shaft get spit on and he breaks a bottle over the hit man’s head.

Buford knocks shaft on his ass in Knock’s office. “This cat knows where Beatrice is”. They eventually talk straight. Black on black crime. How the Italians are out of Spanish Harlem so knocks picked up the heroin trade. 10 million a year. Guess where Beatrice is?

Shaft escapes the police raid with Buford. Ben’s men don’t make out alive. Gunned down on the roof. 5 blacks, 5 whites died. But the white police died from friendly fire. Shaft hides out at middle class sanctuary in riverdale. Home of Helen and Marvin. Anderozzi fills in the mayor. He is asked by Shaft to set up a meeting with the mafia(insurance?). B&S go see Knocks Persons.

Meet Ben Buford and his gang of revolutionaries. Ben is also child hood friends with Shaft. Anderozzi talks to the police commissioner about how Harlem is about to explode. In 6 months the revolution will be armed and read, but this is bad business for Knocks Persons. Shaft deals with a Jewish cabby before meeting with Ben at 4am. Gun fire erupts and shaft literally carries Ben out of the building.

Shaft with Persons. He is a beast of a man but stealthy. Knock’s daughter Beatrice aka “baby” is missing. Persons says Shaft is part white man because he has to inhabit the world of the law. Shaft eats seven hot dogs without thinking.

Shaft is a bad ass brute. He deals with the after math of killing Knocks Persons’s thug. He calls Persons for a meeting at midnight. Before that he works out at the Y, has flash backs of ‘Nam and fucks Ellie. Shaft also teases homosexuals, and sets one up to be jumped in Central Park.

“Siaynoq!”. It means honor to one who speaks with sincerity. But don’t let the fish speakers know you know. It pisses them off. The design for Onn is to view the worm god once every decade. Leto rolls his cart underground and they prepare for the viewing.

It’s nice to know Popeye Doyle was created by the author of Shaft. Shaft spends Tuesday night pounding a lady and Wednesday morning walking towards Time Square and discovering a mob/race war is about the erupt. 2 thugs are waiting for him at his office. He throws one of them out the window.

The Tlexilaxu attack! As Museuem Freman. But the all Face Dance into Duncan Idaho. The Fish Speakers primary order is to protect Duncan. Leto puts his cart into full reverse and crushes and bunch of Tlexilaxu. Duncan get naked and kills the rest. The continue to the celebration and act like nothing happened on the road. The BGs will be rewarded for warning Leto. Moneo wonders about all the Ix devices they use to talk

Leto on the road talking about the Spanish Inquisition and religious hypocrisies. Leto is agitated and Monero is convinced the worm is about to come out. it was a test and Monero passes. His reward is that Siona will return to the citadal but will be "tested" early.
Next a historical account of Sister Chenoeh. She was one of the murdered BGs.

Leto's crew travel to Festival City for the celebrations. Duncan is there with his army of Fish Speakers. Meanwhile the BGs have been dissed. They are dead last in the celebrations. But, they learn that Tielaxu is going to attack Leto on his walk.

In a dark room, Leto meets the new Duncan. Idaho isn't into the female army. Mondero meets with Duncan and explains the lady army. there is some lame shit about the military being inherently homosexual or something.

A report from the Bennies. There are only 6 great houses left. He murdered 9 BG historians for lying. And BGs are funding the Museum Freman.
Nayla reports to Leto. Nayla fucks. but she is unsure if Siona is ready to be tested.

Ix interview the new ambassador. Hwi Noree. her Uncle Malky likes Leto and they both think he is a servant to the people.
Leto wants Duncan to mate with Siona. Leto calls himself a predator. Moneo is waiting for Leto to become the worm.

Moneo ditches Duncans body and want Leto to spare Siona.
The new Duncan meets the Fish Speakers. Who "bath" him. Siona meets with her gang. Iyo Kobat, the Ixian ambassador also meets with the gang. He has been banished by Leto. Leto know that Ix, the Spacing Guild and the Beneies are trying to make a space navigational system that doesn't need spice. Leto is into the idea. Topri gets fired, not Nayla

These pages are dense with information. Leto kills another Duncan in his catacomb Lair. The worm does take over when it’s time to kill. Meanwhile we meet Nayla and Topri. Siona’s crew. Siona has discovered Leto’s weakness. His is sentimental and once loved his sister. Nayla can communicate directly to Leto via an Ixian brain device. Nayla swore to Leto she would swear her allegiance to Siona.

“The d-wolves are an extension of my purpose and my purpose is to be the greatest predator ever known”. Money, Siona’s dad, is majordomo
For Leto. He says there is Leto the emperor and then there is the worm who is god. 2 entities 1 body