The Waste Lands

The gunslinger let me drop, and that is the truth; I still love him, and that is the truth

Dad-a-chum,dud-a-chee,not to worry, you've got the key.

Choo-Choo, thought Jake, and shuddered.

"Shake the hand that shook the world."

"All is silent in the halls of the dead."Eddie heard himself in a falling, fainting voice. "All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. Behold the stairways which stand in darkness; behold the rooms of ruin. These are the halls of the dead where spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one."

TOUGH TITTY, SAID THE KITTY.

Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth.Yet his heart, that silent, watchful, lifelong prisoner of Ka, received the words of this promise not just with wonder but with doubt.

I do not aim with my hand;

He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.

I aim with my eye.I do not shoot with my hand;

He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.

I shoot with my mind.I do not kill with my gun;

He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.

I kill with my heart.

See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fucking Beam!

'At this nexus lies the Great Portal that so-called Thirteenth Gate which rules not just this world but all worlds.'