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Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:

Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell: Yours truly just a fluke of the universe worming his way hook, line and sinker thru the meandering time stream, which current speeds up the older I get rocketing toward my sixty fifth birthday January thirteenth two thousand twenty four. A garden variety (generic) agrarian wannabe antiauthoritarian, bookish antiquarian bloke, antitotalitarian, well mannered barbarian disestablishmentarian, egalitarian, futilitarian, grammarian, quasi hereditarian, latitudinarian, libertarian, majoritarian, nonsectarian, nonvegetarian, proletarian, sexagenarian, Unitarian who receives social security disability courtesy once paralyzing lacerating, and debilitating anxiety. Yours truly amazingly chronologically, enigmatically, gracefully, interminably weathered despite malevolent mental maelstrom, linkedin with extinction of *****sapiens in tandem with many flora and fauna populating planet Earth courtesy Manhattan Project when Ernest Rutherford split the atom. Fiendish and gruesome phantasmagoric denizens dwell deep inside subterranean vault perform an evil dance haunt psychic landscape with imaginary (yet realistic) gargoyle visitations cast macabre trance nocturnal unconscious invaders cavort and gallivant disturb quiescent sleep with devilish and sinister prance. Apparitions crept stealthily into peaceful slumber receptacle repository whence illusory landscape of dreams take place to rejuvenate exhausted body, mind and spirit triage rent asunder blissful sleep with a startled fright cold sweat drenched nighttime garments and bedding teeth chattered uncontrollably heart pounded loudly inside chest nightmarish phantoms wrought an awful ghoulish sight. Mushroom cloud anniversary triggered frenzied gargantuan hallucination since 6 August 1945, at 08:15 inauguration into atomic age took place one country after another sought to acquire demonic and destruction devices maintain self-preservation in surreal atomic weapons race impossible to escape the dark threat that looms and threatens life on Earth one launched missile spells extermination across entire global space. No escape from humankind military machines munitions march mean madness and guaranteed demise to all life *****Sapiens violent history of bias, intolerance and/or prejudice characterizes vicious warfare and chronic species strife unaffordable legacy for future, (and perhaps alien) archeologists who will sift thru civilization debris with delicate knife. Artifacts buried in heap of pulverized and radioactive ash civilization monuments and hedonistic symbols gone in a blinding brilliant flash irksome flotsam and jetsam spewed into outer space alien nations light years distant collect miniscule bits and pieces offer object lesson as extinction for beings that become excessively brash.

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