The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Vol 1 & 2

Original airdate: October 16, 2009

“The men who raised me were lords of matter, and in the dim chambers I watched as they traced the spinning of bodies celestial in vast, iron courses, and bid sparks to dance upon their hands; they read the bodies of fish as if each dying trout or shad was a fresh Biblical Testament, the wet and twitching volume of a new-born Pentateuch. They burned holes in the air, wrote poems of love, sucked the venom from sores, painted landscapes of gloom, and made metal sing; they dissected fire like newts.”

- from The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I

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