LSD in the Wind

[Dave Monroe]

8.  Specters

    The ultimate blasphemy.
    Something mounted and enthroned and positioned with all the care and
reverence of any highly esteemed curio.

    ... like some great inverted cross ....  On one of its impressive
steel fins there were stenciled the two Greek lettrs: ALPHA and OMEGA.
    The Beginning and the End.

    An inverted Sign of the Cross.  With the figure making a vertical
downward gesture to depict the body of the Bomb and then two lateral
gestures to indicate the fins at its base.  The supreme sacrilege!  A
sign from Hell.


10.  Masks

... the Great Bomb, with its inscribed fins, filled the eye.  ALPHA and
OMEGA glowed like constellations in a sky of gun-metal silver.

    "Glory be to the Bomb and to the Holy Fallout--As it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be; world without end, Amen."

    "Almighty and everlasting Bomb, who came down among us to make
Heaven under Earth, lighten our darkness.  O instrument of God--Grant us
Thy peace."

    "Almighty Bomb--who destroyed Devils--to create Angels!  Behold His
glory!"

Avallone, Michael.  Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
    New York: Bantam, 1970.  pp. 71-2, 96-7.

... well now I'm really starting to wonder ...