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Prophecies - memoires concerning John Thiersen
See! Heaven and Hell mesh
in the palms of men
The woman of Babel gives birth to the last
The heads of the stone tree scream in pain
The dancer falls
The Beginning has come
Now let the great circle close:
A blue light shines over Argon's hills.
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John Thiersen sits in a cell in a mental institution and writes what appear to be incomprehensible manuscripts. He refuses to accept his present situation and longs for the time when he hovered over the earth while the epochs flashed and the millenniums passed. Only his doctor Roger Lachman is able to reach him. Through the manuscripts, they are able to communicate.
John has been incarcerated for murdering a respected scientist-a scientist who used John as a guinea pig for radiation experiments. Roger Lachman knows little else. The experiments were top secret and John's current state of mind appears to be the result of the radiation.
Yet John constantly speaks of the "bubble" in which he'd been placed, and in which he was captive, and which gave him eternal life. John actually believes that he is still inside the bubble and that his stay at the hospital is a kind of dream, one of the many his timeless existence affords him. He has seen the future. He has seen the destruction of mankind and the beginning of a new world-a world ruled by creatures with many arms. He writes about this in his manuscripts. Some of them are cryptic. Others name people and places and provide exact dates for events that will come to pass. Among the events described is Roger's death, as well as John's release from the dream which prevents him from returning to his eternal existence within the bubble.
Prophecies - memoires concerning John Thiersen is a merciless depiction of our own present. The author takes us on a journey into the labyrinth of the human psyche. John's manuscripts force the reader to question his own concept of reality. The book provides a detailed picture of the future that is undeniably provocative.
Published 2000. Writer has all publishing rights.
For any questions concerning publication, please contact the author, who will forward your request to his literary agent.
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