a miracle
What I really need now is a miracle that will change everything, were the thoughts running through the mind of the man who was walking without paying any attention, absent-mindedly stepping out onto the street. At that very instant a large vehicle barreled into him, ending his life immediately. Where did those thoughts go? And were they vindicated, authenticated, validated? Or, did they fall into the abyss of all the world's broken dreams?
completely visible
One day, finally, X. realized he was an entirely different species than all those around him. They were all the same as they had ever been. But only now did he realize that they shared a secret language, secret pleasures and pressures, secret concerns and joys. He had never known any of this, having previously floated through their world with his light invisible steps. Now his approach was heavier and full of insight. Now he was completely visible. But entirely unseen.
A new pope, a new history
Crowded around their large screen TVs, the Americans celebrated the announcement that they have a pope. Across the world, in France, watching their screens, the French were ecstatic -- they too had a French Pope. In the Philippines the crowds roared for their new, Filipino Pope. And so it was in every country, county, state and city. Every person who had an interest had their own pope. And so it was in this new era. Everyone was happy inside their own reality, and the only wars that took place were inside the mind -- history's most powerful and potent territory, and the terrain of its biggest disasters.
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