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Everything: In the Beginning, Chapter Two
(
fiction
)
by
dannye
Fri Oct 06 2000 at 0:00:28
Chapter Two
Carts moved slowly underneath the tower where the monks worked so feverishly, their cartmen calling out in loud ((and
joyous
tones?)), "
Bring out your dead. Bring out your dead!
"
The smell of death all around him made Callitus anxious. He had assumed this
project
would take a few weeks, perhaps six months. Little did he know that when one begins to
catalogue
all of human thought that the culling is the hardest part. It became not a process so much of what to
put in
as much as what to
leave out
.
The monks from the northern regions were scholars of many fields; primarily the sciences. They were intent on including nothing aside from facts and logical theories. They were concerned with the
what
and
when
and sometimes the
how
-- not the
what is up
, when is
dinner
, and
how are you doing
.
Several of the monks from the southern regions were quite fond of the steamier and more mundane aspects of human existence. They were intent on including all manner of human thought, no matter the depravity, banality or sacrilege.
How could this be reconciled with Pope Kurt's
vision
of
The World as It Should Be
? Even the somewhat liberal Callitus Nathaniel Oostendorp was at times aghast at the thoughts going through his subjects' minds. He was said to wonder at one afternoon reverie,
"How can such beautiful specimens think such horrible thoughts?"
This became the primary
bone of contention
. How much do the future generations actually NEED to know about their ancestors?
In his infinite wisdom, Callitus spoke thusly:
"We shall have to go among the populace and find
one
who is both
of
them and
apart
from
them
. We shall have to find a man who understands the limitlessness of potential as well as the downfalls of
perfidy
."
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Everything: In the Beginning, Chapter Three
Everything: In the Beginning, Chapter One
Perfidy
right and wrong
Bone of contention
Everything: In the Beginning, Chapter Four
North Otago
Two Gentlemen On Veronica : Act III, Scene iv
Cull
The West Wing
Jack Nicholson
logic
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