[10 nov 2001 — scanned for #bookz]
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In the year 2024 the most important single thing which the cinema will have helped to accomplish will be that of eliminating from the face of the civilized world all armed conflict. With the use of the universal language of motion pictures the true meaning of the brotherhood of man will have been established throughout the Earth . . . All men are created equal.
—D. W. Griffith, 1924 (Director of “The Birth of a Nation,” adapted from the novel The Klansmen)
Music will always be the voice of the silent drama. There will never be speaking pictures.
—D. W. Griffith, 1924
All right, D. W., take three . . .
Being the Third Book in The Gaean Trilogy
In which certain events described in TITAN and WIZARD come
to their conclusions,
And containing an account of The End of the World.