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Bulă, or How We Invented Quantum

Jaia Papitz

A literary satire about laughter, bureaucracy, and the small cosmic errors that keep reality from sealing itself shut.

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Parables of actual and metaphysical revolt

EVENT IN THE LAND OF X Last night, stones fell hard through the midnight sky when all was quiet as moth wings in the village. Figs began to bloom under the heavy moonlight, and fish crows and geese took off from the Lake in un-timely migrations to the north. Hermit crabs and water snakes sought new shores. The Butcher was found dead on the stairwell, he died from inhaling too much lavender, and the Village Priests all went insane at the same time, speaking inverted Latin and Greek. The Cradle Maker, who was also the Casket Maker, shot himself in the mouth, apparently overcome from the hypocrisy of his craft. Since dawn, the children have gathered the stones that fell from the sky in order to build a new altar to appease the god of Movement—to show their respect to Lord Chaos, yet fearing him beyond all other gods and…

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