'Ages come and ages pass, and all the wonders of old fade to dust in the endless eras beyond their building. What once was worshiped, wastes away, what once was sacred slips into silence, reduced to rubble and ruin by the technology of tomorrow, remembered only by a remnant.' https://t.co/XG4OxCeNOW
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 27, 2021
'We are often so obsessed with demons, with the evils all about us, with the nightmares that torment us, that we cannot rest nor rejoice in the many marvels of our lives and those around us. If only we could silence the sinister, shuddering slumber of suspicion and stress.' https://t.co/9n0mGNJbE0
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 27, 2021
'Fear gripped her. She had come this far, fought so hard to survive all this time only to be confronted by these… monstrosities. They were simply impossible. There was no way could challenge, much less conquer these nightmares. Yes, she trembled, but she did not turn nor flee.' https://t.co/sGZTsoLXKp
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 27, 2021
'They called it the door to eternity, and now he could see why. He had come from far away and long were the days and months of his journey from the land of his youth. Long were the trails and travails of travel, all borne with patience just for this moment, to see his future.' https://t.co/qEAioaFFvb
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 27, 2021
'So many paths to plod, so many miles a day, so many steps to reach our goals that we can never stay. Always in a hurry, always in bind, always in a fluster, something on our mind. So many journeys taken, so many trails to tread, no time to awaken, before we are done and dead.' https://t.co/6XBTfdb1im
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 27, 2021
'When the world adapted and the mechanical men became the modern and mundane, few noticed and fewer complained. After all, automation brought autonomy, apathy, and absolute acedia. There are no wants or needs that can not be fulfilled for a fee and the machines fulfill for free.' https://t.co/Xctg0uEJMW
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 27, 2021
'No one noticed it at first, so small, so insignificant next to all the other worries and troubles of life. Alas when it grew too large to ignore, no one did anything to stop it, each assuming that someone else was minding it and would cut out the cancer before it got too large.' https://t.co/hvFGELEmeF
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 25, 2021
'Oh for the silent spaces, the sanctuaries of solitude where we can reflect on our lives, the world and the very question of why anything is at all. Oh for the spots no one else wants or cares about, the sites for soul searching and serenity, where we can find or lose ourselves.' https://t.co/Yt5UPiQa8j
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 22, 2021
'They came from somewhere, of course, there was a homeworld somewhere in their distant, forgotten past. But they had been plying the warp for ages, for far longer than their people had ever lived planet-side. Now they were the spacefarers, the wanderers, the nomads of the stars.' https://t.co/84INDJe64M
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 22, 2021
'Millennia had passed before anyone other than shepherds settled upon the hill and another millennia passed with no heed payed to the small tribe that came to call the place their home. And yet once declared sacred, the hill was forevermore a capital to empires and a holy place.' https://t.co/bu6MJtHE1x
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 22, 2021
'Upon the outskirts of the settled cities, upon the borders of the accepted and the ignored, out beyond the perception of the masses, where the well-mannered and wild collide and clash, there upon the periphery is where you will find us, the artists, the rebels, and the workers.' https://t.co/0sm50sMetO
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 22, 2021
'Built to stand against the sands, and to repel all who dwell upon the dunes who would strike at civilization's cities, the walls and towers of the pass had been erected long ago, but had needed repair and restoration more than once, each time growing taller, growing stronger.' https://t.co/EuCzDAAnBe
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 22, 2021
'Everyone knew of the subterranean serpents that hunt the larger creatures of the tunnels far below the surface. Everyone knew them and feared them for their size and ferocity. But just as sharks hunt not the tiny fish all about them, so too the snakes held no danger to us.' https://t.co/8jWBQm7Ksv
— Duncan Wilson (@MrDuncanWilson) January 22, 2021