It was when the dawn birthed the Dog Star, whose light had been hidden under the horizon by precession. The Shi'ra Who Crossed Over was on the other side of the river. The curtain of the temple was speaking. Men could dream about rotating fields of orange trees.
The world is full of ferocious beasts that can't be suppressed with word, wit, or strength; they are warded off with eternal vigilance, a patron deity who keeps watch and does not look away. "In peace they only have fireflies to count; woe to us all if their count is ever wrong."
They had no memory of where the harvest came from; all of the fields were fallow and they whipped the Earth for oath-breaking. History turned her head and found them more naked than they were in Eden; her fury will be remembered for a thousand years.
@zelinarxy It's been memory-holed now, but in 2014 after MH17 was shot down NATO wanted to send troops to Eastern Ukraine to create a DMZ.
People listening to Mr. Bauer think he means in 2022. No, NATO wanted to throw down a decade ago.
@Supamalaman The Angels will not stop pointing at man and shouting, "sweat and bleed to show us what is Excellent" ... History will continue being a sequence of events that "cannot happen"
Heaven speaks before the listener arrives. No man could pull the sword from the stone, but they remembered that it ought to be done. The many carry transmissions for the few to actualize without error. "Attila believed that Mars sent him his sword." (Piety, unlike Isaiah 10.)
"In each conflict the old world vanishes, a new world is born, and one worthy of being cannot be made from hesitation. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions dictates: Hit Fast, Hit Hard. To perish by zeal is an honor; Movements dealt like thunderbolts sustain the world."
@Supamalaman That which was not life was harder than stone, no change shimmered on its sides. Out of the moving waters came Dance and War, whose word is the same in my mother tongue
Coincidences are the most important thing in the world, but you have to be realistic about how much you can squeeze out of them. Grandpa's journal reports the Coincidence of May 12th 1838 produced 8 ounces