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<p><a href="ideas.html">Notes and ideas</a></p>
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<li><a href="post-self/toledot/index.html">Toledot</a></li>
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<li><a href="st-dog.html">The Life of St Dog</a></li>
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<p>“That I am!”</p>
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<p>“That I am!”</p>
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<p><em>“But that was good! Much better than signing a waver that we might be lost and then waiting for the appointed time.”</em> Dear paused, tilted its head, and adopted a sly grin that surely meant trouble. <em>“But I do not think that that is</em> actually <em>what happened, for when God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“But that was good! Much better than signing a waver that we might be lost and then waiting for the appointed time.”</em> Dear paused, tilted its head, and adopted a sly grin that surely meant trouble. <em>“But I do not think that that is</em> actually <em>what happened, for when God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.”</em></p>
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<p>Codrin sat down on the ground as the other two had and awaited Dear’s version of the events.</p>
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<p>Codrin sat down on the ground as the other two had and awaited Dear’s version of the events.</p>
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<p><em>“When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“I knew that cause from the moment that God opened up the heavens and reached down to touch me on my crown and opened my third eye–“</em> It forked into a version of itself which had such a feature. <em>“–that I was to seek far and wide for those who saw the world as I did and guide them into a fullness of being that no one had ever seen before right up until that ordained moment of my death.</em>
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<em>“In short, I began a cult.”</em></p>
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<p>Its partner laughed, “You might well have, given the choice.”</p>
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<p><em>“Shush, you. I began it in all good intentions. I had seen the truth as revealed to me by God itself — for is not God made in the image of me? — and certainly the best that I could do to help my fellow man was to lead them to the truth. The truth is beautiful and cruel. We are not meant to own a thing! We are meant only to suffer, and by suffering, be purified, and by being purified, ascend from this mortal plane through the cosmic vibrations to something akin to ecstasy!</em></p>
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<p><em>“Power, as the tired saying goes, corrupts, and I bore power. Eventually, I attained absolute power, at least among my followers. I was their prophet, was I not? We were not meant to own a thing, yes, but as the ephemeral physical items passed through our lives, I sampled the greatest among them. The truth may be cruel and we are meant to suffer, but is not even the highest pleasure a form of suffering of its own? Orgasm is called the little death, is it not?”</em></p>
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<p>Codrin and Dear’s partner both laughed.</p>
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<p><em>“And so I took what I wanted and did it all in the name of suffering and poverty. I believed it as hard as the rest of my followers, though. There was no cynicism, back then, down in the physical plane, where all is tainted by evil. I was a prophet and the prophecy applied to me, as well.</em></p>
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<p><em>“There was no hope of a grand death, I knew that. I knew that I would die in the agony of flames–“</em> It gestured at the bonfire still roaring. <em>“–and I knew when, so I was expecting the hammering on my door and the shattering of its hinges. I was expecting my team of tame Judases to come crashing into my meditation chamber. My followers! Some of the greatest and best among them! They all came for me, and I let them in full knowledge haul me to my feet by my very scruff — grab me there and I go limp as a kitten!”</em></p>
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<p>Both of the audience members grinned at this. Both knew it to be true.</p>
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<p><em>“I let them drag me to my pyre, my last great possession, my last great suffering, and I wept with joy at the beautiful, terrifying, and irreversible agony of that final moment. Even my screams contained ecstasy!</em></p>
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<p><em>“The cosmic vibrations welled up within my heart and my mind and my soul and my body and when there was nothing left of me but ash, I found myself here, surrounded by love and peace and all that I could possibly desire!”</em></p>
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<p>With that, it bowed dramatically and sat back down amid the applause.</p>
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<p>When both Codrin and Dear had stared at Dear’s partner for a long few seconds, they finally held up their hands and surrendered to the pressure. “Fine, fine, but I’m not the storyteller that you two, are, so you’ll have to forgive my tail.”</p>
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<p><em>“Pish and also posh, my love. I look forward to it.”</em></p>
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<p>“You are also very drunk, fox.”</p>
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<p><em>“But of course!”</em></p>
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