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Chapter 4

In his dreams Carl Magner was drowning. He was dying, and he knew it. The pressure of....

The pressure was intolerable.

Waking, Carl Magner preserved his fear. He was really afraid. Afraid in reality. Something was very wrong.

He knew the secrets of Hell. He did not know that the stars stood still in the sky beneath his feet in the same way that he knew the stars above his head were distant suns, but nevertheless....

The consequences of the knowledge were by no means equivalent. He knew about the excrement and the hothouse effect and the radioactive waste and the wrecked world of prehistory. One way or another, he knew. Such knowledge was not censored from the learning of the citizens of Euchronia’s Millennium, but only from the myths. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was complete and plucked clean out of the closets of his mind. He had drawn some inspiration and a vestige of understanding from a study of Blake, but in the end his need to misread and misinterpret the original and twist it to his own purposes had proved unconquerable. He believed in his own fourfold vision, not in Blake’s.

Carl Magner was still afraid.

The pressure was forcing him to....