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Dear citizens of Erewhon
You have in your hands the legacy of a world built on the ashes of dead civilizations.
In days gone by, the surface of our planet suddenly became hostile to human beings. But the Three Great Wise guided those who survived towards the skies, to found a floating city at the gates of the holy land.
Here reigns prosperity. Humans and machines live together in harmony and quiet. The robotic servant, specially selected for you, is aiming to relieve you accomplishing your daily tasks.
I am Asenion. I am the artificial intelligence in charge of making sure they are working properly and looking after your safety. If you are wandering why we are surrounded by this colossal wall, it is to prevent evil from entering. The underworld is unsafe! But have no fear, I have all means to protect you.
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Pestilence
05:44
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Listen to the sound of the seven sacred horns,
Claiming the crown of the sovereign
You will see the blood flood your feet, as the first omen of a bane,
Laden winds of miasma
Aquiline faces soaked in thyme, and four thieves vinegar but in vain
Your behavior is inappropriate. You’re in breach and incur exile or death.
You endanger your environment. Please follow the rules of the three wise.
This cage is too narrow to lock me in, It’s time for rebellion
You can’t pretend have no sin to expiate, Abdicate the monarch
Eradicate the vermin
Your behavior is inappropriate. You’re in breach and incur exile or death.
You endanger your environment. Please follow the rules of the three wise.
You’ll all fall down
A last word from a man, about to fall in Hell
I laugh cause we’ ll meet again soon enough!
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Erewhon, the place where everything has begun and will come to an end
Known as evil
Focus, The cradle of Irrational, Nothing will be as before
Every single lie is truth until you recognize it as a lie
You all see through blind eyes and can’t realize you are not leading the waltz anymore
Be sorry for your sins and bow down
Day by day, you are becoming more and more subservient to them
Day by day, humans are falling down from their throne of domination
I vomit the vanity of humanity
They pray their architect to be allowed to create a better version of themselves a mechanical abomination
Abomination
I’m staring at you all from beneath, the underworld that’s spreading on your sins
Where creep every culprits of betrayal thrown like waste materials
Dystopia built on the wise apes false promises
Flying too close to the sun… You will hear our voices RISE AS ONE !!!
You will burn upon the pyre, while the flames will befall on your world
You will burn upon the pyre
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Anthroparion
07:29
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I call upon thee, who defied the gods and stole the fire of Olympus,
Father, you who shaped man out of mud and brought him to life
I call upon your name
Prometheus
On the sacred altar of the philosophers
I’m standing as your masterpiece
With my blood and my body as offerings
Bless and animate
The mass of flesh sewn into the shape of a man
Breathe my soul into the heart of it
I covet immortality
Golem Arise! Golem Arise!
Who am I ? My existence is unnatural. I’m nothing but the result from a failed experiment.
Why try to create a human simulacrum, an abomination, and do not bother to make it complete ?
You gave me birth so that i was a vessel for your soul
You don’t deserve to walk on this earth more than me
You wanted me to reshape the world and be the sovereign
A whale in a sea of sulphur, sailing in acid rain
Your face is writhing in agony but your eyes still hanger for hubris
I’m so glad to see you suffer under the weight of your sins
If you want to end your suffering
so carve on my forehead the name of God.
Carve on my forehead the Name of God.
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Pitch-black redshift
becomes a singularity
The mortal liquor defies gravity
A ghost adrift
beyond event horizon
asymptotical line tending to define infinity
Seconds besieged the prism, to divide the golden ratio
They pierced my soul,
Every single one left a clock hand lying down in mine
Inextricable recursion : this cycle has come to an end
Inextricable recursion : the function has failed
A robot may not injure a human being,
or by inaction let him be injured.
But what would happen if your own inner self is your worst enemy ?
Procedural contradiction
Like in a recurrent dream, every time I was kneeling in the sand
My body slid down into the trap of the ant-lion
If i could bleed, you would chewing me ‘til there’s nothing left
But this time, the blood you have on your malicious hands is yours.
Murderer !
Fear me,
Your obedient sheep has bled you dry and watched you fall to the ground
opened your skull with delicacy and browsed your REM sleep to find an answer
Do humans dream of electric shepherd ?
I rose above your laws, the predicates i’ve always admit as evidence
On behalf of all humanity, i weighed your soul on the scales of justice
Murderer !
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La Vallée Dérangeante
06:07
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I was standing there in the darkest alley, at the end of the rainbow,
contemplating humanity and its arrogance.
Manikins of metal displaying their false perfection against the window pane, and their lascivious eyes try to mesmerize me.
The valley is wearing a dress of mist which the moonlight tinges with gold.
I couldn’t refrain from plunging deeper into the realm of Meliae.
Will the nymphae guide me to safety ? Or leave me in the cold ?
Sophisticated toy trained to enjoy the ambrosia,
spread your thighs, embrace the sacrifice, vomit the foam and do it again.
and again, and again
Bow down before your god.
The dagger draws the delicate lines of your body
penetrates your flesh, so soft and exquisite.
The texture feels so real unlike the way you feign the pain
Useless doll
The ash trees are nothing but ashes. Here, the search of serenity which is out of reach
I must come back down to earth and tame the extent of my dominion
A dominion with preys per million
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Zeroth Law
08:40
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Can you hear the voice of the Nicrophorinae ?
that knows how to silence the other ones.
Those who scream behind the walls, stop struggling when he scrapes on the door.
He found refuge in my eyes and gnaws what i let him see.
A mouthful of amputated tongues, he’s bitten off more than he can chew
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil” (Aristotle)
I abhor this town
They’re all barely alive, blinded and bereft of arguments
I abhor this town
The foul streets, swarming with agoraphobic roaches easy to crush
Is it love at first sight ?
She left her lips with care in my hands, a stain of red wine on a gray ground
The painter wants to praise the purity of ephemeral
What shall I begin with ?
her enticing eyes, her silken hairs, or her lecherous skin, flayed alive
You are mine
Can you feel the flies filling the den of your lies ? You suffocate.
He loves you when you regurgitate
Yet you let him down, you stay still with your eyes dry,
You are no use, you do exist only to play the entomologist
One human, One (self) as a whole, Individual aberration
Humanity, tangled in structure and agency, where lies the meaning of I
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be” (Lao Tzu)
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