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Coming Race
Coming Race | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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Accompanying an engineer down a mine shaft, a wealthy American discovers a series of caverns in which dwell the subterranean Vril-ya race. With a destiny to eradicate human civilisation, it can only be a matter of time before they emerge from their underground caves to take on the world as we know it.
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Coming Race | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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🎶Look out at your children
See their faces in golden rays
Don't kid yourself, they belong to you
They're the start of The Coming Race
The earth is a bitch, we've finished our news
Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay🎶

One of the many literary references to be found amongst DB's lyrics. Lytton's book was influential in its time, his concept of a life force, Vril, 👇🏼

Bookwomble ...creating quite a stir amongst not only occultists like Helena Blavatsky, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and Alistair Crowley, but also amongst the public at large. Its most long-lived cultural legacy is probably little recognised today, being the beefy jam formerly known as Johnson's Liquid Beef, but renamed to cash in on the book's popularity as Bovril, literally "Cow-power" ⚡?⚡ 4y
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