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| =[[Newtons Sleep (novel)|Newtons Sleep]]=
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| ==Plot==
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| ===Book One: The Rituals of the King===
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| ====Chapter 0: The Waste Book====
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| As above, so below, [[English Civil War|War on Earth]] has begun to mirror the actions of the [[War in Heaven]] - the struggle of the [[Great Houses|holy houses of Christ]] and their [[The Enemy|their eternal Adversary]] shape worldly events. In all things you may read the influence of the divine and of the damned. <br>
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| A [[Isaac Newton|boy]] sits under a tree, dreaming of the near future, of books and writing, as something falls onto him. Not an apple as it would later come to be told, but some sort of unknown substance. As he examines the unknown substance, his mind flashes forward to the life his life would become, not mere books and writing, but coins, and a king who does not yet exist. He looks upwards and sees a tangle of limbs. Climbing the tree, the boy finds a [[Babel (Newtons Sleep)|man]] as black as night with no face, his head a solid sphere, with branches struck through him. No, not a man. An angel. He touches the angel, examining it, kicking it. The angel clings to him, envelops him, swallows him whole, and the boy once again catches glimpses of his life to be - parliament, coins, infinitesimals, optics. Looking at parts of his life, the boy is repulsed, but as he sees the entirety of his life he asks the angel what is to happen. The angel says that he has but one mission given by his creator, the destruction of the Adversary. The boy offers to help. All he must do is live his life, letting the angel live in his shadow. The angel insists that others would dare not strike him. The boy awakes, with all memory of what was found in the branches gone, left only with his dream of a perfectly ordered book.
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| ====Chapter 1: Killer of Sheep====
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| [[Nate Silver|Nathaniel Silver]] stood in the crowd on a dreary January morning, happening to be in [[Whitehall]] during the execution of [[Charles I]]. He didn't wish to come into town on that day, but the wound on his head had gotten worse, requiring him to be in the area. It was his duty, so he thought, as one of the soldiers who fought and killed to make this happen to see this through. As the king was theatrically killed, there were cheers and wails, people would claim that there were portents of various types, falling stars, beached whales, the severed head talked for minutes afterwards. In later years Silver would write that the last was certainly false, having not noticed it at the time, along with his other writings on history and philosophy. Finally, after spending some time in contemplation, he returned to his troop. As he went, he carried with him three things as he ever did. The pain in his head, the scraps of paper with his thoughts and musings about life, and a small wooden box.
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| Silver travels out of [[London]] for a few days, though it feels like it stretches on for much longer. At last, in the twilight fog, he meets up with [[Sir]] [[Denzil Lynch]] and is fondly ushered back to the latter's estates. Sir Denzil informs him of people appearing recently, in dribs and drabs, calling themselves [[Silverite]]s, followers of his. Silver is surprised, and denies it - he has no followers. But Sir Denzil insists that they call themselves such. The two dine at Lynch's manor, and Silver is introduced to his young daughter, [[Alice Lynch]], Sir Denzil telling her that him and Silver are going to conduct an experiment together on this land. [--Comment about how Silver mentions his secret is Alchemy and Denzil laughs it off? P15--] After dinner the two of them discuss business; Silver thinks that Sir Denzil is underestimating the risk - that even though the fighting is over the two may very well be caught - previous experiments were tried and crushed. Silver brings up the possibility that he preaches [[blasphemy]] or [[sedition]] on accident, as it's easy to do. Denzil waves it off. He trusts that Silver is a good man on this earth, and so long as Silver is discrete these charges can be made to disappear. Finally, with trepidation, Silver relents, and the two negotiate terms for a settlement on Denzil's land.
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| As the pair begin to tour the compound granted to Silver the next day, Silver's self proclaimed followers arrived to great them, a group comprised of all different backgrounds, brought together by their interest in his ideas and their shared trauma from war. One of the Silverites in particular caught his eye, a woman named [[Ann Brownlow]] who he regarded as quite beautiful. Not long after Sir Denzil began to raise walls around the compound, turning the compound into a stockade, as the Silverites built up other necessary structures - Alice Lynch often coming to visit, to watch the group. One night, after a long day of work, the Silverites began their merriment, stopped only for a few minutes by Nate elaborating on what he thought this commune should be - a place of love, and how in love no bad can come. He slips away from the party, wishing that Ann would follow, but instead Alice follows him. He expresses his disappointment, though she reflects that Ann does love him, even if she doesn't realize it yet. Alice tells him that she'd like to live in his world of love, and he confesses to her that he almost died in battle, shot in the head. As she fell asleep, he carried her back to the commune, expressing his trepidation at sharing with anyone what he truly experienced on that day. Heaven opening before him, cloaked giants reaching into his self and stitching him whole. As he went to sleep he glanced in the small wooden box he kept for what he was found clutching on that fateful day - a small [[Egg (Newtons Sleep)|egg]] that gave off a strange glow.
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| As the year marched on into the harvest, Nate resolved to learn the art of butchery. All of his followers, save the infirm, were working the fields, and so he insisted upon making himself useful and learning to slaughter sheep. And before the year was out, he and Ann married. Some good news to water down the bitter taste of the poor harvest. Still, Silver held out hope, they only had to live one winter. On the first of January, the first Silverite was found dead from [[blue death|disease]]. Within a week three others. Ann died on the tenth.
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| ==Pages to create==
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| [[Sir]] [[Denzil Lynch]] - And old knight who offers to let Silver live on his land and grants him and his "followers" protection.
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| [[Alice Lynch]] - Daughter of Denzil Lynch.
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| [[Silverite]]s - a group of people that considered themselves the followers of Silver. + called Church of Christ the Sublime
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| ==Notes==
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