History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

James Shelby Downard's the Carnivals of Life And Death: My Profane Youth, 1913-1935

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Coincidence?
Lift the Masonic "Hoodwink"
A Mind Numbing Curiosity at Best

James Shelby Downard's the Carnivals of Life And Death: My Profane Youth, 1913-1935
James Shelby Downard
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James Shelby Downard, who died at the age of eighty-three in 1996, is one of the most compelling conspiracy theorists of the twentieth century.

Robert Anton Wilson wrote that Downard's "King-Kill" essay, regarding the involvement of Freemasons in the murder of John F. Kennedy, is "the most incredible Illuminati theory of them all." Marilyn Manson wrote a song based on "King-Kill 33Â°," and even two rock bands, one in Atlanta and the other in Seattle, named themselves after Downard's piece.

The Carnivals of Life and Death is James Shelby Downard's thrilling life story, detailing the skullduggery and ritualism of the KKK and Freemasonry and how they imposed themselves on the young Downard and his family in Depression-era Deep-South America in the 1930s.

Editor Elana Freeland writes in her introduction, "Downard's tale is a piece of the puzzle of a very important period when networks of fraternal orders were front and center in consolidating techniques of sociopolitical control."
Interest in the hidden aspects of Freemasonry is reaching boiling point today, and James Shelby Downard's eagerly awaited contribution to this secretive and little-known aspect of American culture will be widely read and discussed.

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Coincidence?.......2007-09-21

You can learn something from the experiences of Drownard. His perspective is quite different from that of most people. He used his paranoia as a weapon to help him survive.

His stories are bright bits and pieces in a chain of circumstances that some may call a Grand Design and others a Great Conspiracy.

Oddly enough, the vibe of this book is much like that of HBO's series Carnival. Coincidence???

Lift the Masonic "Hoodwink".......2006-10-24

At last James Shelby Downard's autobiography has emerged from the underground like a Cowan from a Masonic crypt, breathing with vitality and tales of the bizarre. Feral House has edited this account which was previously only available in a rough but thorough form from Downard's protégé, Michael A. Hoffman II (it's still available and makes for an interesting comparison for savants of Downardia). In addition, the book is enlivened with an introduction by Adam Parfrey, recounting his personal experiences with Downard and giving an insightful framework to the reader who is--to put it mildly--in for a wild ride.

The story is at times tragic and by turns hilarious, shot through with the dichotomies of the man himself. Downard uses racial slurs yet fights against racist exploitation; oscillates between eloquence and slang; denigrates immorality while operating by his own confessedly "situational ethics." Above all we have a sense of a mind awake, a brilliant man who takes his dark life by the Devil's horns and gradually discerns in his daily world a web of symbolic connections which lead him to see past his own repeated manipulation, finding his own part in the Play. As he does so, he frustrates his Stage Directors time and again by deviating from the script and outfoxing them all, emerging with a sense of humor and wonder, two qualities his grim pursuers lack.

In addition, the editor has highlighted several of Downard's insights in textboxes, supplementing them with historical details which form a backdrop to the account and educate as they elucidate. Have you read a Masonic whitewash account which reassures you that the Grand Lodge has nothing to do with, say, the occult lodges of the OTO? Downard explains this to be part of the "Masonic hoodwink." Through his life story, Downard helps lift that blindfold enough for us so that after laying the book down, we can go out and see more than we did before, discerning charades, finding patterns, symbols, and even discovering a level of poetry and humor in our existence. We might even be inspired to step outside the script like Downard and fight the Cryptocracy itself.

A Mind Numbing Curiosity at Best.......2006-10-15

From the first time I read Downard's article in the cryptic anti-Masonic symbol inspired rant, "King-Kill 33" in "Apocalypse Culture" from that always challenging publisher Feral House, may Adam Parfrey's tribe increase. I have anxiously awaited the release of Downard's auto-biography (or hagiography?) "Carnivals of Life & Death". I was hoping for I admit a exposition of the nefarious cryptocracy littering the American landscape a la Downard. Perhaps in the same vein as Jim Brandon's "Rebirth of Pan".
What I found instead upon entering Mr. Downard's tacky carnival was a memoir of paranoia as lifestyle coupled with insights into an active Oedipal complex (he just can't say "NO" to his monster Mother), (wait there's still more) and the most jaw dropping violence comitted by little James as a child that would make most Sam Peckinpah movies pale by comparison. His feeding of a wounded bad guy to an anaconda in a sewer during a fast getaway scene was my personal favorite escapade. Discover how as a mere child, Mr. Downard fought off the entire goon squad of Ku Klux Klaner's and Freemasons in Ardmore, Oklahoma and became the most hated kid in Amerika.
Like a car wreck I kept staring at this book and flipping pages. Several times I wanted to sail it across the room in a fit of ennui, but fought off the lassitude by incredulity. That is until Mr. Downard invokes the historical reality of Diana Vaughn! Diana Vaughn was an imaginary 19th century victim of Masonic abuse invented by the French journalist Leo Taxil as an example of human gullibility in the face of conspiratorial thinking. The French Catholic community was really pissed off once Taxil revealed the sham.
That said, this is the best paranoic writing on the market today. For those seeking more "King-Kill 33" type of investigation you will be sadly disappointed. Mark Twain once described the "Book of Mormon" as "chloroform in print", this work will make you only slighty disoriented. Dis-oriented...the Masonic Grand Orient...maybe I am part of the Masonic mind control agenda...?

Adventures In Odyssey Fiction Series #12: A Carnival Of Secrets

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Adventures In Odyssey Fiction Series #12: A Carnival Of Secrets
Paul McCusker
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Patti Eldridge has been depressed ever since her best friend, Mark Prescott, moved away. So when the spring carnival comes to Odyssey, Patti's parents are sure they've found just the thing to cheer her up. But when the rides don't appeal to her and the hall of mirrors seems dull, Patti wanders off…and in to Madam Clara's fortune-telling tent. She's certain her mother and father wouldn't approve, but what harm could it do? After all, she doesn't have to believe a thing the woman tells her, right? Patti wins a prize at the shooting gallery just as Madam Clara said she would. But then bizarre things start happening - like the fortune-teller showing up at Whit's End and the brakes on her parents' car mysteriously going out. If only she had told her parents the whole story! Then she'd know whose word she can trust - theirs and God's.

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Carnival Secrets
Good Book for All, Especially Science and Math Teachers

Carnival Secrets
Matthew Gryczan
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This book reveals the secrets of winning midway games. The author describes dozens of games and explains how to play them. He also warns about dishonest games and those games which are almost impossible to win. The book includes plans for building your own games to be used for practice, home entertainment, or for making your own mini-carnival. This book provides a fascinating look at the world of carnival games.

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Carnival Secrets.......2003-01-05

Matthew does a great job in showing patrons of carnival games how they can win and gives information on those games which cheat a player. I have recommended this book to the general public and law enforcement when I lecture on crooked and gambling carnival games. I have many of the games he describes in my collection of confiscated or homemade games. I am writing a book on carnival games at this time from a law enforcement perspective that exposes the secret methods of cheating. People should remember that many of the games do require practice. Just because you do not win does not mean a game is crooked. Any game can be altered to cheat a player, the trick is to watch the operator and others play. Know the written rules up front. If you feel you have been cheated, seek an officer on the grounds and make a complaint.

Good Book for All, Especially Science and Math Teachers.......2001-03-30

This books talks about over 35 different carnival games, their strategies, and how they work. Some parts are so detailed, that it is easy enough to build your own attractions from the description. Just to pick two games that can be used in the classroom, Roll Down (Chapter 10) is good for a probability exercise, and Bottle Set Up (Chapter4) is good for a center of mass lab or demonstration. This is a fun book that will cause you to look at carnival games much differently, and for the creative teacher, has extensions for use in a classroom.

The Buffets of Carnival: Entertaining Secrets From Carnival Chefs

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The Buffets of Carnival: Entertaining Secrets From Carnival Chefs
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THE BUFFETS OF CARNIVAL ENTERTAINING SECRETS FROM CARNIVAL CHEFS

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Interesting........2007-01-10

Very interesting book - lot's of LARGE recipes - would need to make recipes smaller.

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THE BUFFETS OF CARNIVAL ENTERTAINING SECRETS FROM CARNIVAL CHEFS
Narko Nincevic
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The Buffets of Carnival Entertaining Secrets from Carnvial Chefs

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Dark Carnival The Secret World of Tod Browning Hollywood's Master of the Macabre

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Faces Under Water (Secret Books of Venus, Book 1)

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Dense
Great Storytelling
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The Secret Books of Venus: Book I
Dark, colorful, and breathtaking...

Faces Under Water (Secret Books of Venus, Book 1)
Tanith Lee
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It's no surprise that Tanith Lee has won the August Derleth Award and several World Fantasy Awards. She writes elegantly of love and lust, hatred and obsession, in decadent, morally ambiguous, fascinating novels and short stories that owe more to Angela Carter and Oscar Wilde than to any established tradition of fantasy.

Lee finds the perfect setting for her rich style and dark visions in Venus, an alternate-history, 18th-century Venice caught up in a fevered Carnival that requires everyone to either wear masks or be killed. When Furian Furiano, searching for bodies in the canals, finds instead a floating mask of Apollo, he becomes entangled in the complex plots and counterplots of warring religions and the secret societies of powerful guilds. And he encounters the beautiful Eurydiche, who has been cursed from birth with silence and an immobile face that make her both a powerful symbol of the historic role of women and an irresistible, inscrutable, and possibly fatal attraction for the hot-blooded young Furian.

This fantasy murder mystery, Faces Under Water, is Book I of the Secret Books of Venus, but its plot is self-contained and complete. This is no fat fantasy; rather, it is a properly proportioned novel of somewhat more than 200 pages, a length that displays Tanith Lee's considerable gift at its finest. --Cynthia Ward

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The Secret Books of Venus series-each book woven around the alchemical elements of water, fire, earth, and air-begins with Faces Under Water, in which Tanith Lee immerses her readers in ancient Venetian canals and the secret terror that lies beneath. Lee's characters are immediately plunged into a fantastical world of sorcery, where horror and beauty mingle under breathless spells of enchantment and desire.

In the hedonistic atmosphere of an eighteenth-century Venice Carnival, gaiety turns deadly when Furian Furiano happens upon a mask of Apollo floating in the murky waters of the canals. The mask hides a sinister art, and Furian finds himself trapped in a bizarre tangle of love, obsession, and evil, stumbling upon a macabre society of murderers. The beautiful but elusive Eurydiche holds the key to these murders and leads him further into a labyrinth of black magic and ancient alchemy. Why do secrets from Furian's past seem tied to the mysterious Eurydiche? In Tanith Lee's brilliantly imagined world of violence and terror, Furian must find a way to survive and stem the obsession driving him toward his hidden destiny.

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Dense.......2004-11-24

Tanith Lee's writing seems to come in two categories, though not exclusively. Her Flat Earth series, and her fairy tale stories, are written in an arch style which suits them.

And then there are books like this one, and the comparable Paradys series, which speed past arch and enter baroque. I found the writing so distracting that I had difficulty following the plot.

Some readers might enjoy this style, but I don't. The book is short, which is nice, but it's still too long to sustain the style. On a positive note, the period setting and the mix of murder and alchemy are intriguing. If only I know where it was going and what it meant when it got there.

Great Storytelling.......2004-09-26

This is an enjoyable, unique fantasy that reveals a touching, unconventional love story. I liked the fact that both the heroine and (anti)hero of the story are misfits and both hold deep disappointment and disillusionment at their core; at the end of the story you really want for them to be happy because they've been so emotionally deprived. Their interations are both touching and erotic. I won't write more in order not to give the plot away, but I really would recommend reading this book.

A beautifully described sci-fi Venice.......2003-09-22

I like Tanith Lee and I happen to think that she writes beautifully, but all that aside, this story didn't really hold my attention. I continued to read it only for the imagery it evoked and not because I really cared what happened to any of her characters.
The story begins with Furian Furiano (a disillusioned former aristocrate) wandering the canals during Carnaval looking for dead bodies to bring to a friend of his who is an alchemist and also possesses a magpie that he nourishes with scraps of human flesh from his experiments. (I know, what a great guy). Things begin to go awry as Furian discovers a mask in the water and brings it back to the Alchemist, Dr. Schaachen. He later links this to one of his father's friends who belongs to a mask making guild. This friend has a daughter with a rare disorder that prevents her from making any kind of expression. It draws vague parrelels to the Orpheus, Euridyche myth.
I did get bored while I was reading this book. Just because the story is sometimes vague doesn't mean that it is profound. Just because the characters are decadent and without morals doesn't make this story shocking. The book was well-written enough to keep me reading, but only as a travel guide to somewhere that doesn't exist.
I found myself missing some of Tanith Lee's earlier books like the Silver Metal Lover, and Biting the Sun. Her characters are so much more human. I recommend those if you want to see the kind of writing that she is capable of, and she is capable of some wonderful writing.
I probably will read the rest of the books in this series though.

The Secret Books of Venus: Book I.......2003-01-24

Set in a fantasy version of the 18th-century Venice Carnival (a setting I really liked), "Faces Under Water" follows Furian Furiano (very original name ;) as he comes across a mask floating in a canal. This discovery leads him into the company of dark alchemists, the Guild of Mask Makers--and ultimately into the arms of Eurydiche, a woman whose mask is her actual face--a well-woven twist to the authentic Carnival atmosphere.

Although it's been a long time since I've read this book (I had to browse through it again to remember most of the story in order to write this review), I do recall "Faces" was rather slow-paced, particularly in the beginning half, and not as exciting or intriguing as Lee's Paradys series, which this series appears to imitate. Based on this book alone, I doubt I'll like her new Venus series. There are three additional books to it--"Saint Fire," "A Bed of Earth," and "Venus Preserved"--but I'll probably stick with her Paradys series instead, one I'd recommend over this series.

Dark, colorful, and breathtaking..........1999-10-26

When Furian Furiano, a moody and temperamental young man with a painful past, comes across an exquisite mask of Apollo in his daily polings through the canals of Venus, the Venice of a shadowy alternate world, he has no idea what this chance find will bring him: a desperate love, initiation into an ancient and reclusive craft, and a closer encounter with death than he ever wished. In the hidden places of Venus, something is stirring and waking, something kept skillfully hidden until Furian's clumsy searches bring it to light...and not Furian, not his beautiful lover Eurydiche, perhaps not even Venus herself will be safe if its power is not stopped.

Like Lee's novels of Paradys, which seems to belong to the same world as Venus, "Faces Under Water" deals with a wide range of emotions and environments, from the darkness and the decadence to the unexpected joys and pains-all of which Furian's troubled life encompasses. Central to his thoughts and the story is the idea of the mask: what lies behind it? Can one even know what is really there? Furian's lover Eurydiche is perhaps a personification of this question; born with a rare disorder that keeps her mute and her face as still as stone, she cannot affirm her love to Furian in any way that he can concretely accept. In the same way that Furian can never be sure what Eurydiche is thinking behind her beautiful mask, he cannot fathom the plot that is forming around him until it reveals itself to him at last. The Mask Makers' Guild...a mysterious tribe known as the Orichalci that dwell in the southern Amarias (seventeeth-century Venus' name for the Americas)...questions of life and death...unlikely pieces joining together, they form an impenetrable screen around Furian, weaving darkness until he cannot find his way out alone. Yet dark as Venus' world may be, it is not entirely without its lights. Humor and odd bits of truth are provided by Furian's friend/mentor/irritant Dianus Shaachen, an aging doctor who dabbles in alchemy and other mystical arts, dotes on his pet magpie, loves to be cryptic, and may actually know something of use to Furian. Furian's own interactions with his fellow characters show him to be more than a figure moved about a stage-by turns wry, sarcastic, and vulnerable, afraid to admit love, unable to deny it, he is achingly, familiarly human. And Eurydiche and Furian's love, whatever its nature, may the one thing that can heal both these wounded people. Such things are necessary-for how can you know what you have gone through if there is nowhere to pause and look back...and how can darkness have meaning without the light?

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