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For David McClintock;
friend, fellow admirer of Olaf Stapledon,
and above all, bookseller.
Only when space is rolled up like a piece of leather
will there be an end to suffering,
apart from knowing God.
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—~vet~vatara Upanis. ad, VI 20
In the end, there is cruelty and death alone over the land. Not in a single ray of light or grain of sand will you find solace, for all is dark, and the coM gaze of God’s indifferent, heavy-lidded eyes falls on all with equal disdain. Only in your inner strength is there salvation; you must live just as a tree must live, or the cockroaches andfleas thatflourish in the land and ruin of Earth. ~4nd so you live, and feel the sting of knowing you live. You eat whatever comes to hand, and if what you eat was once a brother or sister, so be it; God does not care. Nobody carex You whore, and if you whore with man or woman, nobody cares; for when all are hungry, all are whores, even those who use the whores. And disease flourishes when all are whores, for germs must live, and spread across the land and ruin of Earth.
