(Cont.)
Then, early on the morrow, while the Volcano and the multitudes of the workforce were at rest, Yeshua the Zealot went over to John F. Kennedy Street and made amends with all the residents and the members of the fraternities of the Harvardites who had been offended by the enslavement of their fellows in the Hasty Pudding Club. Yeshua also met with the future namesake of that “First College in the American Colonies,” John Harvard himself, whom he paid a local witch to bring up from Sheol. They spoke briefly, and Yeshua clarified any misunderstandings. Then Mr. Harvard sunk back down.
Now the sun was rising, as Yeshua concluded his business on John F. Kennedy Street; and he was walking in the direction of the encampment, as the multitudes were awaking. And the Volcano came out of the Tabernacle of Potential and began to wonder why the tent of Yeshua the Zealot seemed empty. Then he saw the man himself enter the camp. “Did you not sleep?” he asked.
Yeshua answered: “I wanted to make sure that matters were smoothed over between us and the Harvardites, before we continue our tour of India.”
The wild man blinked his goat eyes, then said: “Is there anything I should know about, before we proceed? For I was planning a route that would take us to each of the five boroughs in succession, so that we can meet the rest of their people.”
“Just one thing, first,” said Yeshua the Zealot. “Let us stop by Harvard Hall, before it burns – I thought you’d agree, it would be good to rescue the five thousand volumes that will otherwise be lost in the fire.”
So, before recommencing their main journey, the Volcano led the multitudes of the workforce on a brief detour to the original Harvard Hall; and he delivered it into their hands, and they salvaged its library. All the books that were therein, they transferred to the ark; not one did they allow to be burnt up.
And they also saved Henry Dunster, the first President of Harvard, by carrying him safely unto the house of the mayor of Las Vegas: there they set him down on the doorstep, and positioned within his hand an explanatory note. And the mayor welcomed him to the city.
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Then the Volcano passed from Harvard Hall, and all the workforce with him, unto the first of the five boroughs of India, which is the land of Hawaii and Alaska; and they encamped before it, and its monarch was with them, as well as its soldiery and samurais. So they had no trouble winning the trust of its residents. The Volcano caused the people of both states to welcome his wandering workforce, and it took only two days for them to mix and mingle with almost everyone. Seeds were planted, and many new pilgrims joined the caravan. Also, some wayfarers chose to take root among the locals, just as had happened in Harvard Hall (for that library had an attractive staff). And everyone was happy.
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Then, from Hawaii and Alaska, the volcano god Yahweh took the multitudes of his workforce and passed unto the legendary “Promised Land” owned by Jehovah. And they encamped before it; and, again, its feudal LORD was with them, as well as his host, therefore the merger of their corporations was a cinch. After signing all the paperwork, the nations met and mated: they thoroughly mixed, and countless seeds increased the starfield. It required only a single day to effectuate this conglomeration.
Thus did these fiefdoms join Hawaii and Alaska in one grand annexation.
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Then Yahweh the Volcano bid farewell to Lord Jehovah, and left the legendary “Promised Land,” along with the multitude of his workforce (some of the masses remained, as usual, with Jehovah and his people, while the rest from both sides chose to wander with the Volcano), and they crossed the utmost sea, until they reached the Happy Isles.
There they met their friend Achilles. He and his islanders welcomed the tourists, and they mixed and mingled. They all compared their glittering swords; and they reminisced about the olden days, back when physical battle was still in fashion. And they exchanged stories: The workforce told Achilles all about their clash in Reno, Nevada, and they sang the song of their Infraborian ambush. And, in return, Achilles shared his memories of military madness.
Then the workforce of the Volcano also relayed the histories that Jehovah had told to them: about how his own armies conquered his current demesne (for his tales greatly impressed them) – he explained how they took each nation, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; and he left none remaining, but destroyed each paradise utterly, and left neither child nor beast alive. And Achilles’ eyes grew wide when he heard this.
So, after the workforce of the volcano of potential finished touring the Happy Isles, they brought Achilles along with them, in the caravan, and went back to visit the Lord Jehovah, because Achilles wanted to meet him.
And the Zealot led the Achaian into the legendary “Promised Land,” and they visited the ancient Hebrew God in his temple, where they all three – Yeshua, Achilles, and Jehovah – compared sword techniques and reminisced about bloodshed.
And some of his fellow Happy Islanders had accompanied Achilles, and they mixed and mingled with all the souls who lived thereabouts. Then Jehovah took Achilles and Yeshua on a walk through the countryside, along the rolling hills, and to the south, and he showed his new friends the vale and the springs, while telling them about all the kings that he had vanquished, and how he came to be called “the Lord GOD.” He stressed that his signature military strategy was to leave no living thing remaining in any place that his forces plundered: everywhere he led his shock-troops, they utterly destroyed everything that breathed. Then Yeshua the Zealot narrated yet again the events of his own army’s actions in Reno; and Jehovah showed respect unto the El Cortez affair; also Achilles shared fragments of epics that he was the hero of.
Thus they conversed as they walked along the land. Jehovah then revealed to Achilles and Yeshua his plans to renovate the cities of the plain that were in that region. And when the three men came to Mamre, they stopped to visit a friend of Jehovah’s, who was a rancher of many herds. This cattleman offered them a meal; so they all sat under a tree outside his tent and ate roast calf. After which, Jehovah sent Yeshua and Achilles on toward the cities, to tour them before his proposed changes took effect, while he himself remained behind to bless the man’s wife.
So Achilles and Yeshua went sightseeing together throughout Sodom and Gomorrah, and they mixed and mingled with the residents of those places. Then, resuming their stroll, they soon found themselves in Cambridge again and approaching Dunster Street; whereupon Yeshua the Zealot took leave of Achilles, for the latter had decided to stay on a while longer among the feudal estates of Jehovah, in hopes of persuading the warlord eventually to come and join him in the Happy Isles.
Finally, Yeshua returned to the Volcano and rejoined his multitudes where they were encamped at the Hanging Pond of the Great Basin Rainforest.
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