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The Parable of the BalloonsIn the faraway land of Smarmyville,The Parable of the Balloons
A distant locale placed high on a hill,
There lived happy Smarmies in simple abandon
For they never worried about disasters at random,
But any problem that came they imagined away
Or put off thinking it over to some other day.
When the weather was cold they imagined it hot,
When the sky started raining they imagined ‘twas not.
When someone was poor they imagined him rich
When someone sang badly they’d pretend he had pitch.
And all of them, all, though you may think them loons, &n
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UnintelligibleBelieve in things you cannot understandUnintelligible
But realize you do so at great risk.
Pretend that you are sure of something grand
But where all roads lead in the end is this:
Hidden uncertainty gnaws at your heart
reveals to you the blindness of your views;
and every faith from faith sometimes departs
in Wiccan coven or Southern Baptist pew.
What then? Should we abstain from all belief
because the world is too complex to know?
Or will we fall at length with strained relief
again to things that we th
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Lines for CowperA man sits by himself in the garden, filling his lungs with nervous draughts of air. He sees in tranquility his own foil, as the beauty around him reminds him of the darkness that hides inside his soul. He came to escape. He came to forget. He came so that he might not feel the weight of his life, of his soul, of his lost faith, even if only for a short moment. He hides from himself in small distractions: his garden, his poetry, and his friends. But nothing ever works for very long, and in the end he lies awake at night, alone again. He has onlLines for Cowper
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we have finally installed a working forum for the Machina Obscura project.
Since you are already watching the project here on dA, we are contacting you now to kindly ask that you register to the forum soon! You can find the forum at machina-obscura.crazyfruits.net.
Thank you very much, hope to see you there soon!
- *TheCoconutGuy
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*Machina-Obscura
A Steampunk Adventure
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----Machina Obscura----
A Steampunk Adventure
pen & paper / tabletop RPG
Thank you very much for your interest and your watch for the steampunk RPG project *Machina-Obscura, we appriciate that a lot!
There will be a lot more coming in the future, and we would be happy about any support you can give to develope the project even further!
Thanks again,
- *TheCoconutGuy
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*Machina-Obscura
A Steampunk Adventure
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----Machina Obscura----
A Steampunk Adventure
pen & paper / tabletop RPG
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