Tag: innocence
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The God of the Rocks
They said of him that he would be watching. They said that from his mountain throne he would see the last of them to their graves, and the world itself would spiral down into infinity, before his eyes could rest. He brought to them seasons, sun and the rain, and he taught them dread. …
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It’s no use calling, Pandora – they won’t come back
It was at Sunday School that someone told me either Adam or Eve (I don’t remember which) invented Original Sin, which I eventually understood to mean anything involving two bodies getting within touching distance of one another; especially if a certain kind of touching was involved. Superficially, I took in old, cracked oil paintings of…
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The Moon’s a Balloon
Was it GB Shaw who remarked that the more civilized the society, the more gullible its members? In GB’s time the Flat Earth Society made hay with its grass roots theorists – today, we have much more meaty matters (or anti-matters) to feast upon. Our childhood acceptance of the universe as we saw it –…
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