First off, I just love the song.
It’s not actually repeating. It’s definitely rhyming.
This should be familiar:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Unrelated to anything, but I would have sworn it was “..requires that they they state the reasons which impel…” but that’s from archives.gov so one assumes it is correct.
The “history” to which I refer is the Colonial era Peccadillo of apparently Random Capitalization. There was, most likely, a Compelling cause and set of Rules, which have been Lost.
The rhyme is what’s going on (in at least LitRPG) with sentence fragments and paragraphs.
“Fine. Let’s go play good Samaritan,” he muttered.
“Let’s make it count,” Kane said.
They moved.
Into the smoke.
Into the chaos.
Toward the line that no one had asked them to cross – but they were crossing anyway.
They didn’t wait.
As soon as Knox gave the signal….
The first two are dandy: Quotes are paragraph breaks. What follows are not even sentences, let alone paragraphs. I wonder if it is to pad the page count…
No, it’s not The Matter Destructor, which I did manage to finish (or at least catch up to the author). This is another one: Offline God: Book One of the Re-Write Cycle (bonus points for putting “book one” up front).
Assuming anyone even reads this sort of thing in 50 years, they’re going to roll their eyes at that weird style – just as we roll our Eyes at the time/place oddities of our Ancestors.
Synchronistically, YouTube has been throwing Belgian Malinois videos at me and the protagonist (Knox, above) has one. They are WAY too high-energy for me to want one, but they look like amazing dogs – and the YouTube videos usually have hot handlers. I think the algorithm has caught me.
Update: WordPress always prompts me to add tags to these. I usually add what it suggests. This time, in addition to the reasonable “books” and “writing” tags, it suggested “God”, “faith”, and “religion”. Say what?!? Since when does quoting an entirely secular document bring up associations with G*d, faith, and religion?
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