The Last Castle (part two)
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The Last Castle (part two)

I did appreciate the giant "fuck you" that Vance is giving to the American Colonization Society and their ilk. At the same time though...well, the decision to have the only other alternative to that be a war of extermination between the rebel slaves and everyone else on Earth is...a choice. One that makes me reluctant to give him too much credit.

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Midnight Mass (part five)
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Midnight Mass (part five)

In their boat in the channel, the last two human residents of Crockett Island - both teenagers, its final generation - watch as the sunlight falls on the shore. The fires burning across the island are joined by more flames, scintillating and golden, that light up across the beach.

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Midnight Mass (part three)
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Midnight Mass (part three)

The dead consuming the living, an inverse of the natural process of decomposition. The old consuming the young, an inverse of the natural process of childbirth and parenting. They come out at night, when the sun is asleep, God isn't looking, and the natural order can be challenged. When children are found missing the next dawn, it's a victory of the night over the day, the past over the future, that which should be dead over that which should have gotten to live.

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