Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Chapter Five: Language
Jim busied himself with work that served a dual purpose, tasks that advanced
his personal mission, which also fit within the assignment he had undertaken
for the Continuum
He seemed to be devoted to the type of work the Continuum expected him
to do; archiving, preserving, recording the history of this world.
Through his international network Jim kept alive the ancient languages
that informed disparate groups and tribes of their essential unity, even the
original language that the colonists spoke when they crashed on this planet so
many eons ago.
He kept them alive through his secret societies, using them as a vehicle
for initiation as the members ascended through the various hierarchies.
He hid codes within the prevailing tongues, echoes of those ancient
forms of speech, that rang out like a bell, or an alarm to the initiate when
they heard it.
He created auto-hypnotic tropes which they could not resist once their
indoctrination was complete. He moved freely through the circles of power with
the use of them.
He could not rely on his machinery to help him construct this network,
the risk of its being hacked by the Continuum was too great. Instead he relied
on the ancient methods of oral tradition, of complex mnemonics to achieve those
ends.
Secrecy was the path to survival.
Discovery would put the Earth in jeopardy, and he might not know it
until the warships appeared in the sky above the tiny blue green planet, Imperial
juggernauts large enough to blot out the sun.
Jim bided his time.
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