Tag: Deep Time
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Waypoint 4.2—The Wombfish
Doris is a sea-goddess, a second-generation Titan who lived long before Zeus established his Olympian hierarchy. She’s no queen, but rather a natural node within a mythic network. She’s but a single, dew-bright strand within an interconnected web of life. She’s also the daughter of Oceanus, the world-circling river, and of Tethys, the fertile sea.…
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Waypoint 4.1—Of Roots, Rhizomes, and Fish with Feet: The Lurid Bait of Egotism
The purple mountain heather is a symbolic affront to the arrogance, the tyranny, the demagoguery that fancies itself the axis of the world. Had great Ozymandias been a botanist—had he studied the rhizome and grasped its implications—he would have been moved to feeble tears. Or else he’d have ordered every last one ripped from the…
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