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A fire needs food and it needs oxygen.
Bellowing trumpets. A tumult of men and horses. Crackling fires.

Flatline. Polar ice-caps.

Polar bears will become extinct as a species. The land dies and its creatures die with it.

A girl with dirt under her fingernails.

When the image is presented in neutral language the reader’s response to it will tell him more about himself than the author. Your initial pre-verbal responses are reflections of yourself.

Idiot.

Failure to understand these principles will result in banishment.
To be banished beyond the Circle is to be left to a life of complete formless chaos.
In the Flux there are no meanings to be found and no rules to be followed. In it a mans mind is torn to shreds. Nothing coheres. Nothing is allowed to cohere. Before a thing can form it is torn apart.
This is what it means to be expelled from the Circle.

Idiot.

There is the Stage and there are Actors. These things are permanent, all else, props.

Ravens in the Tower precincts.
The ruins of Rome. bone yards.
Fickle coin.

There are festivals. In the festivals we re-enact our defeat at the hands of the Rulers. The festivals end with a sacrifice which symbolises our acceptance of slavery. The enemy has become the King and hate has turned to Love.