The Dark Tower I
The 7 Tiers of consciousness in Dune:
Level 1s (the worms)
Level 2s (tribe dynamics)
Level 3s (fundamentalists in the south)
Level 4s (all about Dust extraction/politics; call T5 the rats)
Level 5s (against typical order, anti-voodoo, anti-power, one with the T1 Earth)
Level 6s (Dust: visions, partial flashes of the future)
Level 7s (post-worm trip, see a
The single best thing you can do for the world. It occurs to her: The problem begins with that word world. It means two such opposite things. The real one we cannot see. The invented one we can’t escape. She lifts the glass and hears her father read out loud: Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
…a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a leaf, a stone, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb, we did not know our mother’s face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into... See more