CITY OF SEVEN SINS. Parables

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MAX JAKOBSON. CITY OF SEVEN SINS. Parables

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High mountains hid in the deep ocean along with the last hopes of returning home. For several years, the shaking of water and earth turned villages and cities into dust and dirt; billowing waves carried boats, crops and lives to the ocean. Nothing remained of the great empire, only the memories that survivors will pass on to their children and entrust to descendants to tell again.

And they were only a few hundred, and they did not know if there was anyone else besides them in the whole world. The birds led their large ship, which was badly damaged by storms, into fertile land: on each side of the land great rivers flowed, quenching thirst and yielding food.

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Hanoch went to the board on which Galia wrote down his epistles, and drew a tower with a few movements of the chalk.

“That’s what the Almighty tells us to put here in His name. And at the top of this tower, under the very clouds, build a temple in His honor!”

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