VENETIA
Chapter One - The Box
“Unborn, eternal, immortal, this ancient is not slain when the body is slain… Smaller than small, greater than great, this Self is hidden in the heart of man… Understanding this, the wise man cannot grieve… Bodiless in bodies, stable among unstable… he is released from the mouth of death.”
… attributed to Yama in the Upanishads
“Heaven’s Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization”
Graham Hancock, Santha, Faiia
"She is at once alluring and repulsive, demonic in her attraction and exciting to behold. She is a thing of beauty and a harbinger of death. She is ying and yang, dualism incarnate, and fiercely erotic."
-Lair of the Vampiress
"Sin was at once alluring to the angels of Heaven, but is now repulsive and ugly as she guards the gates of Hell, with her son Death.".
Paradise Lost
John Milton
"At last!" sighed Jim. The inter-dimensional dynamic displacement unit was functional.
The "Box", as he would nicknamel it, would be his ticket to freedom and Jim would be free to roam the galaxy in pursuit of his father. Yes, where was or is good old dad?
Jim couldn't remember much about his father. It seemed so long ago that Jim's dad had left the planet and all that remained were some obscure drawings and plans in his laboratory. Jim discovered that these were actually blueprints for the "Box". These blueprints, if you could call them that, were more of a very complicated jigsaw puzzle which Jim himself could just barely decipher.
Still, some of the Box's supposed capabilities were quite obscure and the only way to really find out its talents was to take her for a spin. Jim knew that he just couldn't leave the Box for Isis to figure out what he was up to. Oh! But what a disguise!
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