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{{a|myth| | {{a|myth|{{image|Iron Mountain|png|The Iron Mountain: diappointingly non-jagged. Entropically foggy.}} | ||
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''You can’t run away forever, <br> | ''You can’t run away forever, <br> | ||
''But there’s nothing wrong with getting a good head start. | ''But there’s nothing wrong with getting a good head start. | ||
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The Cosmos may enlarge, but the individual hanks of [[space-tedium]] on which we ply our benighted trade twist, desiccate and curl at the edges, such that every one of us converges. The Iron Mountain is the navel of the world; the ''axis mundi''; the ''omphalos''. | The Cosmos may enlarge, but the individual hanks of [[space-tedium]] on which we ply our benighted trade twist, desiccate and curl at the edges, such that every one of us converges. The Iron Mountain is the navel of the world; the ''axis mundi''; the ''omphalos''. | ||
Eventually, | Eventually, it will come for you. You will not know when, where or why, but you will know it when it does. You will collect your worldly things, your precious baubles— every last remnant of your existence — and consign it to a [[Iron Mountain box|meagre casket]]. It will not bear your name — by then, ''[[Goldstein|you won’t have one]]'' — simply your final destiny: the last, common, resting place for all mortal souls; the infinite, inertial lock: the [[singularity]] to which all corners of the [[space-tedium continuum]] buckle, fold and funnel the lost [[Children of the Forest]]: | ||
The Iron Mountain. | |||
===In the scriptures=== | ===In the scriptures=== | ||
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For it is written, in St. Pimco’s letter to the Hypocrites: | For it is written, in St. Pimco’s letter to the Hypocrites: | ||
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*[[Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]] | *[[Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]] | ||
{{ref}} | {{ref}} | ||
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