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June 16, 2005

Tanya: Reverence

“How could a man become a god?” she had asked him quietly, as Greta was packing the last of his cases for the journey. To his daughter, Nell, the concepts of ‘man’ and ‘god’ still seemed like opposites.

Traveling by elephant through the jungles of central Africa now, so far from his desk job in London, with his retinue of men and strangely-dressed guides, Constable Moore recalled how much easier it had been than even he had expected. A simple gas lamp, a flintlock revolver, and a bad temper, and they were ready to kneel and worship at his feet.

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