Codex of Locations · The Earth

The Cave of Forgotten Machines

Where Samson's new heart was made.

The hoardch. 19

Behind gates in the Southern mountains, a black cave lit only by goggle lamps: brass gyroscopes gone green, a dusty tube-screen, a horned phonograph, bent antennas, a cracked orrery, a hundred disagreeing clocks, and crystal lodges “waiting like cups for a drink.” On a stone slab hollowed by the weight of others, the Euclids cut out Samson's heart and set Antony in its place.