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Saturday 3 October 2020

Len's Diary Excerpt (2) 1999

 

Len’s Diary ~ Balance I ~ (2) ~ 02/06/99

by Len Morgan

“Kill her!  Do it now!” Anthrax commanded.

“No!” he answered tearfully, “She’s…she’s so beautiful.”

“That’s the test boy!  How can you ever hope to become a wizard of the first order if you can’t act dispassionately?” Anthrax shook his head despairing of his acolyte.  “Love, beauty, good and evil are meaningless; just words…  Where the guardianship of the Universe is concerned, what is the life of one triple winged dragonfly?” He gave Morlen a contemptuous oblique glance, and – CRUSHED HER – with the power of his mind.

Two disembodied wing fluttered to the ground and:

THE UNIVERSE SHOOK!

 

3 comments:

  1. I like this Len, very profound. I assume that this is the "Dragonfly Effect" and that "The Butterfly Effect" follows!!!

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  2. The ends justify the means ... as long as the means don't compromise the ends. What benefits a man, were he to win the world and lose his soul?

    Cheers.

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