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tense

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spir

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spur of the moment

spiral spirit

whirled

Adams

Elect

trick

all

light

life

da bull

true bull

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Torah

Tornado

Tortilla

Tortellini

Tortoise

Round and

Round

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Ra dio

Ra di a t ion

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Not in

church

Not in

banks

Not in think tanks

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Capitols

Nor

Capitals

Not yours

Not mine

His nor hers

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Uncontaminated

Pure

Pyre

Pristine

Empyrean

H eight

Universal

Unity

One

Uno

Onion

Union

Uncut

Ankh

Linked

Synched

Beyond

Transcendental

Trans personal

Infinite

Eternal

One

Within and

Without

All and Both

A and B

Single and

da bull

1 + 0 = 1

All + None = All

Above + Below = Above

Eternity + Time = Eternity

Invisible + Visa bull = Invisible

Dharma

Drama

Wheel

Will

Dream drum

Adam

Atom

Whirled

World

Word

Heard bird

song sung

sound found

round hound

Brahma vibration

in the brown grown

brine

brain

salvation solution

grain

gain

Brianna

Brittany

Born brush rush

broom room

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barn

barely

barley

oats goats

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g

8

Summer summit

Sumer

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1 – Masculine

0 – Feminine

8 – Infinite

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Lost and found

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Here Here

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air

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oar

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Illusory reality

Real illusion

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A A

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pair o’ bells

two el’s

towels

shove el’s

shovels

Elect trick

All

Sea

Stem

Singing

Signing

In

Out

On

Off

Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell

page 120

23

Luisa Rey doesn’t see the dusty black Chevy coasting by as she enters her apartment building.  Bill Smoke, driving the Chevy, memorizes the address: 108, Pacific Eden Apartments.

Luisa has reread Sixsmith’s letters a dozen times or more in the last day and a half.  They disturb her.  A university friend of Sixsmith’s, Robert Frobisher, wrote the series in the summer of 1931 during a prolonged stay at a chateau in Belgium.  It is not the unflattering light they shed on a pliable young Rufus Sixsmith that bothers Luisa but the dizzying vividness of the images of places and people that the letters have unlocked.  Images so vivid she can only call them memories.  The pragmatic journalist’s daughter would, and did, explain these “memories” as the work of an imagination hypersensitized by her father’s recent death, but a detail in one letter will not be dismissed.  Robert Frobisher mentions a comet-shaped birthmark between his shoulder blade and collarbone. 

I just don’t believe in this crap.  I just don’t believe it.  I don’t.

Builders are remodeling the lobby of Pacific Eden Apartments.  Sheets are on the floor, an electrician is prodding a light fitting, an unseen hammerer hammers.  Malcolm the super glimpses Luisa and calls out, “Hey, Luisa!  An uninvited guest ran up to your apartment twenty minutes ago!”  But the noise of a drill drowns him out, he has a man from city hall on the phone about building codes, and anyway, Luisa has already stepped into the elevator. 

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Moon star

Monolith

Monotone

Monotheism

Monarchy

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Rumor

Bloody Mary

Red Mars

March

Aries

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Air

Head

Heaven

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Above

Abraham

Brahma

vibration

wheel will

world whirled

holy whole

heel hell

Below

bi bell

bi bull

belt

Orion

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Iris

IRS

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In corpse orated

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phony phonetics

Hooked on Phoenix

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Goose

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Ass

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mass

pass

Eve

hypnotized

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desperate

despised

spies

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All

Popular

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Trust

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