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  • Only the God Changed (4.5)

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    K. L. Homme
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    The life of a god is but a mythical parting of the eternal dark.  About fourteen centuries before Christ’s eastern star pierced Pagan skies, a goat fell into a chasm, and began to bleat strangely.  This perplexed its shepherd.  Having got his goat safely out, he climbed back in, and down, to inhale the vapors…

  • Of Roots, Rhizomes, and Fish with Feet: The Lurid Bait of Egotism (4.2)

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    K. L. Homme
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    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…