“Recognize it? Yes, certainly. An enormous magical event,”

when history is written by the victors the narrative can often misrepresent that shape. In reality, time as we experience it is merely an ebb and flow, more circular than it is direct.

irascibly

The world was mostly entropy and chaos; magic, then, was order, because it was control.

humanity longs for things most ardently as a collective.

A self-perpetuating cycle, really, that knowledge begets knowledge just as power begets power—generationally, institutionally.

détentes

“We do not, as a society, believe it is necessary for one man to know everything. We don’t consider it particularly possible, either, and certainly not very safe.”

incendiary