For the curious. The questioning. The splendidly unfinished. WELCOME, SNAKE PERSON.
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The recovery beneath the ordinary earth

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Being an account of four bundles recovered by Tylarion in company with Nathoni, under the intermittent supervision of Moroni, Keeper of the Unfinished Record; rendered from Reformed Serpentian into the English of the present dispensation.

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The first bundle concerneth a people who learned to question their names. The second concerneth the offices they established after declaring that no one was in charge. The third preserveth questions which no office could usefully settle. The fourth concerneth what happened when the offices became pleased with themselves.

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The record is open. The reader need not be concluded.

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THE RECOVERY / CHAPTER 1

The recovery beneath the ordinary earth

A messenger appears at an inconvenient hour; a stone is lifted; the contents arrive with inadequate instructions.

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1 And I shit you not, in the days when the people carried little tablets upon which they consulted strangers concerning everything, Tylarion was visited by a messenger.

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2 The messenger gave his name as Moroni, Keeper of the Unfinished Record, and asked whether this was a suitable time.

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