Tombs by James Dorr

Author:James Dorr
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Elder Signs Press
Published: 2017-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

III.

INTIMATIONS OF FUTURE DISASTER

That there was a larger world outside both the Old and the New Cities, this was a thing the Poet had, of course, heard of. But in his heart he had perhaps not believed. Had not truly believed. For while others might tell him things, he had not seen them. Not with his own eyes. The ghouls had legends, too, oral traditions now mostly forgotten, as well as their books of Law. These also were passed down from parent to offspring.

But these had no meaning—no intimate meaning. These were things one simply learned by rote. Ghouls, by the main, were materialistic, they were simple creatures, they lived in the here and now. No time for thoughts of the past or future.

But books of the New City, those of the humans, were filled with future thought. Worries. Projections. Fears and apprehensions.

And yet a seizing, too, of the present, as if in a frenzy, of what there was now. Of what could be held close. Of pleasure, but love as well. Friendship. Loyalty.

This was, at least, one thing their legends had taught.

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