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the scroll
They say that it is not of this world. That may be so. Even the oldest books in the library, of paper yellowed and brittle with age, are bound in sheaves, the pages falling open easily. Mounted on fine silk, it is rolled up and tightly contained.
They recite it by rote, matching sounds to an alien script that bears no correspondences to the faded ink on their ancient texts; those crabbed characters show where the modern ones have their origins.
Make these sounds, thus and thus, and it will respond in such a way. Take it up, command it, and it will reshape the world for you.
It has been a long time since there was anyone who could understand it.
They say that it is not of this world. That may be so. Even the oldest books in the library, of paper yellowed and brittle with age, are bound in sheaves, the pages falling open easily. Mounted on fine silk, it is rolled up and tightly contained.
They recite it by rote, matching sounds to an alien script that bears no correspondences to the faded ink on their ancient texts; those crabbed characters show where the modern ones have their origins.
Make these sounds, thus and thus, and it will respond in such a way. Take it up, command it, and it will reshape the world for you.
It has been a long time since there was anyone who could understand it.
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