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You don’t truly understand necromancy if you can’t explain it to your great-great-great-grandmother. — Steven Kaas Evening, May 12, 2017 Mojave Desert I. California shifted around us. Plains, then mountains, then taller mountains sloping down at last into a mind-boggling flatness of desert. And there we were. I had spent my entire life in that tiny strip of California coastline between the mountains and the sea. Now I was in the real West, a Biblical wilderness of scrub and harsh rocks unlike anything I had seen before. The land where the great dramas of the late twentieth century had played out, the twin stories of the Comet King and the Other King. In the blazing sunlight it felt more real and solid than the dreamland I had left behind. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the Wall Drug signs began to appear. Before the sky cracked, Wall Drug had been a shopping center in South Dakota. There aren’t a lot of things in South Dakota, so the owners of the shopp

Unsong Home Table of Contents Author’s Notes Comments Feed RSS Feed Unsong --> Chapter 30: Over The Dark Deserts Posted on July 24, 2016 by Scott Alexander You don’t truly understand necromancy if you can’t explain it to your great-great-great-grandmother. — Steven Kaas Evening, May 12, 2017 Mojave Desert I. California shifted around us. Plains, then mountains, then taller mountains sloping down at last into a mind-boggling flatness of desert. And there we were. I had spent my entire life in that tiny strip of California coastline between the mountains and the sea. Now

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