Toroidal Propeller

Aion &Thoth, LLC.

He holds him with his skinny hand,
‘There was a ship,’ quoth he.
‘Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!’
Eftsoons his hand dropt he.

We developed the toroidal propeller because we could.  We had alloys we never told Andy.  It’s super-structural.  By the time we developed the propeller, the Dart made such a thing obsolete for high-speed travel over land or sea.  But you see Jenny’s lines back at Pancake Lake, Pandora- our yellow wing Jenny- the most perfect Swiss company Jungmann, freshman, young man.  Except for her short sharp nose with her electric motor that is the mark of our Great Lakes design.  That’s right honey bun.  The ones who can buy our products never reveal their source. 

It is simply a Mobius strip on its side.  Nobody in the world would think of such a thing.  Well- somebody did- but they couldn’t do it.  We found them- and we could do it.  Simple as the strategy that beat the brilliant Bobby Lee.  Grant had engineers that came out of the woodwork.  Never met either man personally- but saw both many times during the war. Nothing cuts like a saber.  Nothing sails like a ship and nothing flies like a biplane.  Yah there will be one-deckers too.  That’s not the point, but it says this to you: control the axis and keep the dancing practice. 

Never use a saber when you should be using a goddam saw.  And no matter what you saw the eyes can deceive.  That is why we believe what we want to believe.  Chaska lanced his law and magic.  Thabo thumped his numbers and money.  Henry kept them both honest with his ability to terminate boards of directors.  Thoth may be a Visigoth. I need you to be with me, Henry. What if he asks for proof. I’m wearing a wedding ring. Paper proof. Like a document. Henry, he won’t. You have to see how he is with me. He’s suspected for a long time. If he had really believed we were married, he wouldn’t have tried so hard to court me.

Ach. Stop it will you darling. I need this loan on paper not the money. It’s meant to disgrace him. We just need to convince him that you will guarantee the loan. And when there is default. Henry awoke. Let it be de mine saber saw. I’ll be needing a horse first thing in the morning. Find someone you trust to watch the coca plants and harvested leaves and keep everyone else away from it. Keep track of anyone who has a problem with that. Lock them up too if you have to. They might get sick.  I’m not worried about the nuts right now. Just the leaves from the plants we brought from Florida. Can you do this.

‘God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow
I shot the ALBATROSS.

And then there was the time travel itself. He supposed it to be the changes in diet for starters and sleep deprivation, something he knew well. But, outside of fatigue, it was natural for him to actually see the changes in the mirror first. It’s what first alerted him. First, he noticed the greying at his temples and a considerable paunch after coming back from New York. Eventually, as he stayed in the later 1800s both did go away. So at the realization that he might have to limit his jettisoning to more reasonable amounts, he decided he would do this quick trip for the sake of McCandless and handle what might be needed.

Henry nodded and looked down at the boards making up the floor. They need to be repainted. Then looking directly into McCandless’ eyes. How much did he take in the way of samples. Most of our new crops from the past couple o’ years, and fine with me. He took his wife and daughter with him and I’m hoping he’ll just stay in Atlanta. He got himself a city way ‘bout him anyways. Those plants you brought… Monx was mighty free to let our farmers use them as they pleased. They ain’t no good for workin’.  I’m having to lock it all away after harvestin then ration it when we need to get anything done.  Lost folks to it too.

It wasn’t lost on anybody when Uncle John Sedgwick made the funniest joke of the war.  Sure- the Peacemaker became a revolver.  That’s ironic.  But his last words were, they couldn’t hit an elephant from here.  Last seen alive wearing a half-inch hole and a grin.  Lots of folks saw the elephant back in those days.  If differences of wits, so far distant as these, do enter into competency, the one getteth learning in a trice.  You had to laugh.  Otherwise you’d bawl like a baby. It is the inverse of Chinese painting where what it looks like is secondary to how fast you can do it.  We wanted to make it as realistic as possible.  So we invented Dutch Masters.  Then the camera… and then the other… can small skill in the matter.  

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.