In which Eveline is assured that fate has played its hand.

In which negotiations are entered regarding the acquisition of a young woman for uncertain purposes, and the request made by one man to another for assistance in entering a contest in which the future of the city might be shaped.

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How This Utopia started (twelve years ago) and how it has evolved, why it’s taken this long to get it out there (and to get it right) and what I’m trying to achieve with it.

In which Robert Mayhew, the curator for the Absinthe Moon, is introduced to Eveline the clandestinely kept charge of the Newell family, and almost encouraged to take her, despite their careful protection of her … or perhaps because of it.

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In which we learn (whether we choose to believe it or not) a little of Eveline's impossible history.

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In which Mayhew forces an interview of Alfred Newell to his sister, or … whomever she may be, with the hope and intent of recruiting her on behalf of the Absinthe Moon.

Allow us to take just a moment to express to those who will come upon this history just how imperative it was—and still is, we have no doubt—to be on the right side of nature. There is dark and there is light, as we have laid out already. There are those, born into the light and grace of God who bear the mark of His divinity in the whiteness and purity of their flesh.

A little of the history of Man’s-Eden and the wisdom with which it was established and by which it evolved.

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An introduction to Robert Mayhew … a thoroughly bad man.

In which the horrible, awful Mr. Robert Mayhew, curator of the state-operated brothel, discovers some extraordinary prey … and is nearly impaled during an unexpected raid.

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Not all things that are said to be good are good, and not all things that are said to be bad are bad.

Most things, after all, are rarely what they claim to be.

To bring us to the point at hand, Mann’s-Eden was neither an eden nor was it Mann’s (observe the use of the proper noun here). He, Mann, had merely claimed it to be so, and man, in time, came to believe Mann … until it was the inarguable truth.