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At the Edge of the Wilderness and the Withering Tree
Diary of Magnus Cray Day 5
Someone left the door open, and all Hell is seeping through the crack. Nothing will ever going to be the same again, Alice.
If God’s home, please tell him that I’m sorry.
I rolled into Louisiana just after dusk. It was a small town that we’ll call Etham, right at the very precipice of the Wilderness. What was left of the Old World dangled like a fool from the edge of the night behind me.
On some level, I knew it would be my final “bon voyage” to the Old Paradigm. My complete separation. Many others in the world would continue to slumber in the corpse of the dead reality. They would, in fact, die there.
Dying in a dead world. Dig it?
That’s just the way of things. Not all are outfitted to evolve. It’s not species that advance. It’s individuals within species.
As the great Longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer said, “In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
Radically so now, Mr. Hoffer. Fundamentally.
Some part of me simply knew that Etham would be where I said goodbye at last to the Third Dimension. That…
