Light the fuse

Not the great New Zealand mobilisation novel

An early work-in-progress dedicated to helping,
circuitously, precipitate the Great Mobilisation

Dare to be wise!
Kant

Front matter

Introduction

Contents
author Cimino
work-in-progress published 20250601

Dear Sir or Madam,
will you read my book?
It took me years to write,
will you take a look?
John Lennon

Readpainting actually titled Steady the Drums and Fifes, but repurposed here in the unrivalled cause of the Great Mobilisationy the Drums and Fifes: No Planet Earthly reason Great Mobilisation marches couldn’t be corps-of-drums led, with the beat relayed to a million or more, and to the world, via a corps-of-drums app. artist Lady Elizabeth Butler

Machiavellian might be one world for it, but that is probably much too boastful. Megalomaniacal, certainly, but circuitous  is the relevant adjective here, in describing the proximate mission of this near-term-future fiction. Writing this is one man’s moonshot attempt to provoke a novel by an award-winning author, to provoke a movie, sequels, prequels, and series.

Not for their own sake, of course, but to help build a mandate for the Churchillian leadership, somewhere in the antipodes, to democratically create a proto-Great Mobilisation, then regional, Australasian–Southwest Pacific-Great Mobilisation, and, ultimately, the beyond-urgent, global, Great Mobilisation.

So, Dear Sir or Madam, please read my book, but only if you promise to remember that it not intended as the great New Zealand Great Mo­bil­i­sa­tion novel, but as a prayer to an award-winning author that such book, movie etc., etc, might materialise help precipitate the  Great Mobilisation.

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