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Archivist's Excerpt from: A Chiming Town Indeed: A Painstaking History of Pendulum & its People, Vol. I, CVI 42.5
Despite Orphan Heights being a largely secular society, quasi-atheistic or at least naturalistic (meaning that its official public philosophy is that all things have a cause found within nature itself) many of its people have roots in more religious history, or stem from family groups that were once very religious, especially the Germanic among the population, and many of the English, too.
What was once a mostly Christian heritage has somewhat distilled down to a shallow remembrance of their deity, and thus has the term "Author" come to be used as a broad term for that deity, the "Author of Life, and of All Things."
To both the devoutly religious, those who still attend services at St. Matthew's on Chapel Hill, or even to those who are simply open-minded about a Creator, the term is an appeal to a hypothetical or very real Author who writes the story of their lives, the meta-writer, for they see their lives as a story in a grand and cosmic novel, of sorts, silly as that might be, yet who is this Archivist to argue, writing this very Archive of their lives?
Gives one a headache, it does!
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