notbecauseofvictories:gifovea:How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels#mechanized weaponized an
notbecauseofvictories:gifovea:How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels#mechanized weaponized angels built in a factory; cannibalized humans with springs and wires where a soul should be #you wanted the soldiers of god? have his terrifying swords that swing themselves #alternately—the study of angels in a world where their existence is commonplace knowledge #some victorian lecturer demonstrating to his students the biomechanical principles of angel wings as compared to both birds #and human limbs #his audience of bored Eton boys politely applauding and then leaning forward in their chairs when he invites his special guest to demonstrate #and Caffriel steps forward and shakes xir wings out from the greatcoat—so handy that they came in fashion recently—and gives a live demonstration #as above xir these brief-lived messy humans thow around words like ”specimen” and ”it” #because that’s what angels are—god asked them to bow before humanity and so they did—if it is knowledge humanity #desires then it is knowledge angels will provide; but maybe one or two of the students is flushing angrily and feels #that speaking about angels should be different than speaking about a gaslamp or a dog; that even when it is laid out before you #in terms of drag and lift and the mortar and pestle of joints there is something about the transcendental we should respect; we #should make exception for in the no man’s land of our language #instead of trying to boil it down and extract the lump of lead that results [notbecauseofvictories] -- source link
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