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“…ah no, long ago now, but no too, it’s like both long ago then and merely yesterday too…” replied the goblin all these years later from a objective standpoint, yet subjectively, or internally here, it was still around, still just there then, just in the present continuous perhaps, adding “…no, mum’s actual death was like a pulled punch, a coup de grace even, considering that she had drowned to dementia some time before that point, where the death in itself just made her whole again in a way…”, just that the goblin suspected that normal folks had their memories where writers have their ghosts still, where at times the goblin even hated his pen for the difference it made between the two, sighing "...yes, it's almost as if those ghosts kind of float caught between the ink and the caffeine today..."
...how right you are then..." smiled the goblin thanking the gargoyle now, then adding "...I've been reading a bit more about of islam today, if only because in france, over the boarder from where I am, it is fast becoming its majority religion now, though it's not the islam of the middle east, instead it's the islam of north africa, north african islam perhaps, one that it doesn't seem to have the hypocritical repressive baggage of the kingdom of saudi has...", in fact, the goblin often thought that, if anything, the saudis with their old rigid ways held islam back...", "...ah, but your concern comes too late there goblin..." intervened the slot now seeing the goblin was out of time again, then explaining "...for their war of distraction beckons the powers that be towards its creation, where a religious war would do nicely, why, because as this currency war leads to a trade war that in turn leads to a proxy war, they will need the distraction of an external war soon enough to avoid the alternative of an internal conflict instead, where clearly not only have they ruined the economy by bailing out the bigs by now, but also they have sought out ways to divert our attention away from their obvious mismanagement too, thus they need to blame an external again, simply in other words they need war to save their own skins here, where the details, well they matter even less than the lives do..."
