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The Book of Nod
Actual text.


Preface, by Aristotle de Laurent.


The First Times
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The Coming of Lilith
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The Temptation of Caine
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Zillah's Tale
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Tale of the First City
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I looked at Abel's sacrifice,
still smoking, the flesh, the
blood.
I cried, I held my eyes
I prayed in night and day

And when
Father said
the time for
Sacrifice
has come again

And Abel, led his youngest,
his sweetest,
his most beloved
to the sacrificial fire

I did not bring my
youngest
my sweetest
for I knew the
One Above
would not
want them.

And my brother,
beloved Abel
said to me
"Caine, you did not bring
a sacrifice,
a gift of the first
a part of your joy,
to brn on the altar
of the One Above."

I cried tears of love as I,
with sharp things,
sacrificed that
which was the
first part of
my joy,
my brother.