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"A dire hit, and a new advent calendar to collocate the sins of all, as it fell like a strange angel from the sky, heating the air just above, and the flux of the human bodies singed like shadows upon the beaten concrete; and now they walk in the most dreadful daze, sinew unfolding from their faces, faces feeling the tingle of the invisible, passing pillars afflicted by heat, burning the untold number of eyes upon the deathly plane … domes meant to command the sky now seep into waste, their latticed ironwork exposed like the bones of a beast after the hunt, cut and torn by a butcher’s deft hand, wallowing in the awful atmosphere… children whose flesh is now sliding off, mothers in an obsidian death grip, clawing at the air, bloodying their throats with a banshee’s howl… all caught in an unforeseen light… and how was this all worth it? how in God’s secret name did the will of Caesars unfurl into the soft minds of civilians to fight and tear until their last nail is ripped from their fingers, to formulate a trance far-reaching like a virus across our Nations, and how they seem so bewildering in the strata of the cosmic bomb. There are no more answers from now on.

A new life where one Saturn return is
More than enough to bruise the rinds of us
Before we slip into an awful sleep.
Centuries will slog, continuing in
Awful affect, time’s maladies will
Become more apparent, more resentful,
As the imprisoned God will shack his cage.
We will no longer know calm days of saffron
Sunsets that guide into the wild of night.
Perpetual blackout, defiled karma.
Let us rest above the thunderstorms while
Choronzon’s maw moves its way across the
Wasted planes of the nuclear winter."

Do you support the use of doomsday weapons in the valley of wartime? I believe they should all be dismantled.

>> No.15914783

Does that mean that you support war if there are no WMD?

>> No.15914845

>>15914783
I sense the advent of the nuclear bomb as the real appearance of the Anti-Christ. This one act has afflicted the rest of human history with uncouth sin, that we are still repaying to this very day.
It's all cyclical. It's happened before. Now we just need another ascended master to disintegrate into the abyss of nothing, like Slothrop, taking the sins of humanity with him, cleansing the spiritual petri dish.

>> No.15914881

>>15914758
based fake pynchon passage poster

>> No.15914978
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15914978

>>15914881

>> No.15915195

>>15914758
I thought Pynchon was overrated before reading this. Thanks!

>> No.15915236

>>15914978
based pynched poster

>> No.15915302

>>15915195
sent ;)

>> No.15915355

>>15915302
Zach here
thanks man

>> No.15916025

>>15915355
Man here
Thanks Zach