From 4966fa84469ed5b052d3b94fd38dd37014f5af1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Tomasino Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 00:00:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] backup --- gopher/listing.gophermap | 1 + gopher/orestes/202_return.txt | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+) create mode 100644 gopher/orestes/202_return.txt diff --git a/gopher/listing.gophermap b/gopher/listing.gophermap index 7c0397f..399a250 100644 --- a/gopher/listing.gophermap +++ b/gopher/listing.gophermap @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +0orestes - Return /orestes/202_return.txt 0orestes - Moving on /orestes/201_moving_on.txt 0St. Aemilian - A concern for prayer /St. Aemilian/01.txt 0Isla Ristol - Hay vida _muy_ inteligente :) /Isla Ristol/c05.txt diff --git a/gopher/orestes/202_return.txt b/gopher/orestes/202_return.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f5a48b --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/orestes/202_return.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +=== +Author: Pink +Date: May 26, 2182 (Earth Standard Time) +Location: Orestes Outpost +=== + +Olive's become quite the young lady. She's twelve now. She takes +after her father. I can't blame her for that. He took care of her +alone for the first five years of her life. + +I wish, so deeply, that I could have that time back. I learned not +to blame myself so much for neglecting her, but that took a long +time. I can only put that lapse of judgement and responsibility +down to the effects of the crystals, and the subsequent withdrawal +of those effects. + +There are true crystals and false crystals. False crystals are +everywhere. They are shiny, man-made. They come in the form of +computer screens, space rockets, fancy clothes and beautiful +objects of all kinds. They are complex, manifold, but they are +artificial. Designed to mimic an effect. You can find that effect +in true crystals. True crystals are dense formations that reflect +the cosmos. + +There is true and false love too. False love can feel so nice and +can work well for a while, but true love is a whole other story. It +was eons in the making and bound tighter than the earth is to the +sun. True love is like true crystals. What I had with Green wasn't +true love, it was something to cover over the loneliness. The +crystals were the real thing. They were deep, universal, +unbreakable. That was why I rejected Olive, I suppose. She seemed +to emerge out of something false. But I was wrong, what I feel for +her now is unshakable. + +That is why I am so happy that it was Olive who finally returned +the crystals to us again. + +I don't know how she did it. She is a strange child in many ways. +She had Green fashion her a space suit, and she's been going on her +little exoduses to that rock with the scribbles twice a day. Navy +accompanies her. He says she just sits by the rock and mumbles +things to herself. Anyway, after several months of this, Navy +reported to us that, on their trip there this morning, two tiny +masses of red crystals had begun to form. + +I'm still too excited to even go and look. Could they really be +back? + +Anyway, I suppose that's why I'm writing this message to the void. +I'm trying to postpone going and seeing for myself. I want to prove +to myself that I don't really need them, that I'm happy with what I +have now; Olive and Green. + +=== +Sent via the QEC +