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It began in ancient Carcosa when the first humans were contacted by the serpent people of Valusia. The latter brought with them certain fruits with strange powers. These fruits would be called hallucinogens or psychedelics today, but what they did to the brain of the eater was not in any sense a hallucination. It opened him to invasion by the lloigor. The chief fruit used in these rites was a botanical cousin of the modern apple, yellowish or golden in color, and the snake people promised, "Eat of this and you shall become all-powerful." In fact, the eaters became enslaved by the lloigor, and especially by Hastur, who took up residence in the Lake of Hali; distorted versions of what happened have come down to us in various African legends about people who had commerce with snakes and lost their souls, in the Homeric tale of the lotus eaters, in Genesis, and in the Arabic lore utilized in the fiction of Robert W. Chambers, Ambrose Bierce and others. Soon, the Cult of the Yellow Sign was formed among the eaters of the golden apples, and its first high priest, Gruad, bargained with Hastur for certain powers in return for which the lloigor were fed on human sacrifices. The people were told that the sacrifices were good for the crops -- and this, in fact, was partially true, for the lloigor ate only the energy of the victim, and the body, buried in the fields, gave back its nitrogen to the soil. This was the beginning of religion -- and of government. Gruad controlled the Temple, and the Temple soon controlled Hali, and, then, all of Carcosa.
So things went for many thousands of years, until the priests were rich, fat and decadent, while the citizens lived in terror and slavery. The number of sacrifices increased ever, for Hastur grew with each victim whose energy he absorbed and his appetite grew with him. Finally, among the people, there arose one who had been refused admission to the priesthood, Ma-lik, and he taught that humanity could become all-powerful, not through eating the golden apples and sacrificing to the lloigor, but through a process he called rational thought. He was, of course, fed to Hastur as soon as the priests heard of this teaching, but he had followers, and they quickly learned to keep their thoughts private and plan their activities in secret. This was the age of midnight arrests, purge trials and accelerating sacrifices in Carcosa, and eventually the followers of Ma-lik -- the few who had escaped extermination -- fled to the Turanian subcontinent.
Actually, the apotheosis of Furbish Lousewart V had been engineered by the same group of alpha males who had been promoting the Revolution of Lowered Expectations all along.
These were very cunning old primates in several of the most skillful predator bands on Terra. Because of the stealth and skill of these bands-made up of successful predator families that had been intermarrying for several generations-they collectively owned 99.4 percent of all territory and resources of Unistat.
Sylvia Goldfarb raised a sardonic eyebrow. It had been a witless suggestion.
Justin decided morosely that the literary world had never been the same since the drug revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. "Pretty little boidies picking in the toidies," he said gruffly to both of them and walked out.
Sylvia Goldfarb waited. There was something ominous in her waiting.
Suddenly the sun's body rages. Coiled flames, balls of gas, roll out. The sun looks like a giant fiery arachnid or octopus. One great flame comes rolling toward the earth, burning red gas which turns yellow, then green, then blue, then white.
The quantum connection is unmitigated.
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Tracklist:
(artist, album, song title)
intro
Masonna - Ejaculation Generator - Untitled (31)
Cardopusher - Unity Means Power - I Will Act Like I Care (feat. Sickboy)
Sabrepulse - Chipbreak Wars - Skyfire Ace
Religion Is The Falling Sky - Niles - Great Music Falls Short Of Our Desire
Religion Is The Falling Sky - Niles - Road Island
Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters EP - Cyanide Sisters
Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters EP - BASF
Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters EP - Norkuy
Dream Boat - Fevers EP - Your Beaches
One Hundred Poems From The Japanese - Age Of Expansion - Winter Of Artifice
Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters EP - Komputer
TABLE - We Are No Longer The Same - Please Repair My Hardware
TABLE - We Are No Longer The Same - We Are No Longer The Same
TABLE - We Are No Longer The Same - Moth Catchers
PANTyRAID - The Sauce - Headcase
PANTyRAID - The Sauce - Enter The Machine
Afternoon Brother - Maiden America - Soul Hoopty
Pannalal Ghosh - Raay Yaman / Raag Shri - Raag Yaman
Pannalal Ghosh - Raay Yaman / Raag Shri - Raag Shri
Religion Is The Falling Sky - Niles - For: Manute Bol
Religion Is The Falling Sky - Niles - Influence/Bullshit
end
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