The last words of the god-king upon the occasion
of his exile from the rest of the Theocracy:
“Do mirrors exist?”
9.3 (V) (22:5)
#352
Metafiction G-M
Master Matrix
A man driven by demons and the will to freedom finds a little piece of God’s mind in a bottle.
His first inclination is to set it upon an altar and build a cathedral around it but later decides to offer it to the Minister of Popular Culture for a handsome fee and, when this plan falls thru, he turns to peddling it in the marketplace (at drastically reduced prices.)
The Moral: Civilization Is Coming to an End.
10:13 (IV) (23:7) #375
The History of Science in Five Easy Lessons *
1.) A comet is a ball of hair hurled by the right hand of the Lord.
2.) At the Northern extremity or the Earth there stands a great mountain and the Sun is hidden behind it.
3.) That there are only seven planets is proven by the fact that the Tabernacle possesses but seven candles.
4.) The Mighty Winds are issued from the Four Corners of the Earth, and
5.) The Opening of Hell is situated in the Atlantic at some unknown distance from Europe.
* Compiled by a demotic stricken with SENILE DEMENTIA.
2.2 (V) (24:9) #415
A Little Known Fact Number Two
Anah, was the granddaughter of Cain and sister of Aholibamah.
A fellow named Japhet loved her but she set her heart on the Seraph Azaziel.
When the Deluge came he rescued her by carrying her off to a distant star.
6.13 (I) (26:1) #459
A Little Known Fact Number Three
A runnel-shaped peak towering over the mountains 0£ Sri Lanka
is endowed with a rocky footprint implanted in its summit.
According to local lore it was made by Adam when, for a thousand years,
he was forced to stand upon one leg as his penance after his exile from Paradise.
8.22 (III) (27:4)#481
A Little Known Fact IV
According to the Vazir of Omir there sill exists, to this very day, a cylindrical jar
constructed of terracotta in which is sequestered a bit or the darkness
which once covered Egypt at the command of Moses.
9.14 (III) (27:8) #485
Microtale
Microtale
The anti-mirage drugs did not take hold and so the operation called for was to be the standard one. However, this, too, proved to be unsuccessful for, as it was recorded in the log of the Secret Police,
‘… the dreams were lodged in the imagination where it was deemed that it was too deep to operate.’
12.19 (XI) (nn:11)
#253
Master Matrix
A man driven by demons and the will to freedom finds a little piece of God’s mind in a bottle. His first inclination is to set it upon an altar and build a cathedral around it but later decides to offer it to the Minister of Popular Culture for a handsome fee and, when this plan falls thru, he turns to peddling it in the marketplace (at drastically reduced prices).
The Moral: Civilization is coming to an end.
10 :13 ( IV) (23:7 ) #375
March Against the Barbarians
In the Realm of the Four Quarters Ipuwer, the Emperor, ordered his troops, who were in the midst of a march against the barbarians to the four corners of the land in order to relocate North, South, East & West when it was found that their planet (itself a prolate spheroid) revolved in an inverse manner from what was originally thought amidst a pair of eclipsing binaries. The reason released to the populace: existential ambition yielding to the imperatives of geography.
12.19 ( II) ( 15:2 ) #243
MENS TOPOLOGIA
Yron the Hunchback, who engages in the study of MENS TOPOLOGIA (the shape of the human mind), on a recent visit to the Spindle City revealed to me his latest subject of study — Zeraph the Philosopher, author of the SYNOPTICUS, an encyclopedia of 8,535 volumes (compact edition 1,116), who later in life complained of the curse of total forgetfulness.
8.4 (II) (36:19) #613
The Metafictionist 