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 - [[flancia]]
 - [[alice chikara]]
 - [[leah houston]]
-- [[ragnar]]
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+- [[ragnar]]
+- [[slaying moloch]]
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 # slaying moloch
 
 - an [[intent]]
-  - [[pull]] [[slay moloch]] [[some days I feel like slaying moloch]]
+  - [[pull]] [[slay moloch]] 
+  - despise the gruesome picture it may evoke, it is actually about [[building bridges]] -- a constructive isomorphism to slaying [[moloch]]
+  - [[some days I feel like slaying moloch]]
     - might trigger [[cringe]]
-  - [[write]] [[essay]] 
-    - I hope to write a draft of in [[summer 2021]]
-    - despise the gruesome picture it may evoke, actually about [[building bridges]]
-- [[push]] [[do]]
-  - [[reread]] [[meditations on moloch]]
-    - it left an impression on me, but I'm unsure how representative the impression I currently have of it, mutated by time and experience, matches what's there
-    - I can't say I know it unless I reread it, and making Moloch a part of the [[flancia]] narrative would be irresponsible without revisiting this source. 
-    - [[done]] see notes in node
-  - [[read]] [[hyperion]]
-    - I read some of it once upon a time, but I don't remember how much. I think I mix up [[dan simmons]] a bit with [[jack vance]].
-    - [[done]] see notes in node
+    - I mean to [[write]] a proper [[essay]] 
+    - I hope to write a draft of it in [[2021]]
+  - recently [[reread]] [[meditations on moloch]]
+    - it left an impression on me, but I was unsure about how representative the impression I currently have of it, mutated by time and experience, matched what's there
+    - I couldn't say comfortably I knew it unless I reread it, and making Moloch a part of the [[Flancia]] narrative would be irresponsible without revisiting this source. 
+    - It holds up quite well, actually. See node.