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This is, in fact, the very plot of Fritz Leiber's "The Black Gondolier" (1964) ... relevant excerpt here:
"Created from the lush vegetation and animal fats of the Carboniferous and adjoining periods, holding in itself the black essence of all life that had ever been, constituting in fact a great deep-digged black graveyard of the ultimate eldritch past with blackest ghosts, oil had waited for hundreds of millions of years, dreaming its black dreams, sluggishly pulsing beneath Earth's stony skin... Daloway's theory was that man hadn't discovered oil, but that oil had found man. Venice hadn't struck oil; oil had thrust up its vicious feelers like some vast blind monster, and finally made contact with Venice."
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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The world's biggest loser is the world's richest man. What does that tell us about Capitalism, kids?
November 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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@toddmasters.bsky.social Hey is this one of yours? If so, I've been a fan for decades. I had a few of these guys back in the 80s. Super creepy and unique.
October 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM