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Forbidden Library

Tom Ball

    I discovered there was a forbidden library of books that had been written but were denied publication by the spies. Still the books were in the forbidden library but if you tried to access the books your name was given to the spies, almost as if it was a trap for radicals. But what little I was able to glean was mind reading technology existed and so did the technology for eternal youth. And there were books on how to develop bombs and make guns with 3-D printers. And there were books about scientists who fell in love and did new science work on terraforming Space. Apparently, the spies didn’t want us to go to Space. And so on.
    But I wasn’t cowed by the spies and did a computer search and found all the books. There were so many deep books about what to do on Earth for the future it was mind-boggling. My takeaway was the best minds were muted by the spies, who in any case got into intellectuals’ minds and did a number on their brains. And this mind reading put an end to their writing career. And sure enough, they got in my head and I in effect became their thrall and did whatever they told me to do. I was completely miserable.
    But before they got in my head, I was proud to have written some books. Like a book about how 1984 came largely true, the book by Orwell. And another about how scary the World had become, with different countries’ spies watching everyone closely while they waged wars on other countries. And another book in which I suggested the spies should be watched by an independent body and peace should be brought to the land. Also, a book about how the cleverest and kindest should rule. And another book which was an expose on the forbidden library. So now my books were all in the forbidden library. But I felt I had been silenced too soon, before I could make a difference and the whole World had become a nightmare for thinkers.
    As for the common human, the spies let them be as they posed no threat and just needed drugs and alcohol to keep them happy.
    And dear reader, “I tell you, beware you may not like what you find.”

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