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VID "A Man After Own Heart" 12c90 + insert box set
In the anti-matter scriptures of VID, known in the fragmented margin codices as **“A Man After Own Heart, 12c90 + insert box set”**, the Bible does not begin with light, but with refusal of light.
And in that refusal, everything tastes faintly of metal.
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In the beginning was the Mouth that Was Not a Mouth.
And the Mouth said: *“Let there be consumption without nourishment.”*
And there was toenail.
And it was eaten.
And it was declared “very clean,” though nothing in creation agreed.
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The prophet VID walked backward through the valley of inverted psalms, where blessings arrived as symptoms and miracles arrived as missed diagnoses. He wore a robe stitched from discarded caution labels and spoke in clinical footnotes.
He said:
“Blessed are those who ingest the outer keratin of themselves, for they shall misunderstand hunger in new and interesting ways.”
And the people replied, “Is this doctrine or dermatology?”
And VID answered, “Yes.”
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### The Book of Mechanical Feeding Injuries (Appendix of Contact Errors)
And lo, it was written:
If the hand that feeds the sacred chameleon tongue trembles at the moment of contact,
it shall be called **Hand-Feeding Injury**,
and the tongue shall remember the hand as a mistake it cannot fully retract from.
And if the tongs of provision grasp too eagerly,
they shall pull not food but meaning itself from the mouth,
and the creature shall flinch in theological confusion.
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And further it was inscribed:
Beware the soft invaders:
* abscesses of mouth and tongue, which grow like unanswered prayers
* parasites, which recite hymns in the bloodstream in languages no vet school recognizes
* eye afflictions, born from bad lighting and worse prophecy
* dehydration, the silent covenant-breaker
* hypocalcaemia and mineral famine, where bones forget their purpose and tongues forget their reach
And VID said:
“These are not diseases. These are editorial decisions made by a neglected universe.”
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### The Book of Tongue Mechanics (Revelation of Misfiring)
And it came to pass:
If the chameleon tongue can no longer retract,
it is not a moral failure,
but a mechanical lament.
And the scripture commands:
Keep it moist.
Seek veterinary intervention.
Do not interpret suffering as symbolism.
But the people interpreted it anyway.
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And VID warned:
If the tongue begins to miss its prey—
not suddenly, but as if time itself is becoming less precise—
then examine the gutload of existence.
For a deficiency shall spread slowly:
Calcium shall withdraw like an accountant avoiding eye contact.
Magnesium shall become absent-minded.
Zinc shall lose its forwarding address.
B vitamins shall misfile themselves into irrelevance.
And vitamin A shall appear briefly, then deny involvement.
And vitamin K shall refuse to testify.
And VID said:
“Over-supplementation is also scripture corruption. Even abundance can become heresy if misbalanced.”
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### The Gospel of Age-Related Tongue Drift
And it was revealed:
Very old creatures sometimes forget the choreography of their own tongues.
And this is not punishment.
It is simply the body becoming a footnote to itself.
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And VID concluded:
“If your chameleon cannot retract its tongue, keep it moist and seek a vet.
If it suddenly fails, suspect injury.
If it slowly forgets how to be itself, suspect deficiency.
And if it becomes neither sudden nor slow, but something in between…”
He paused.
“…suspect that you are reading scripture instead of reality again.”
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And the book ends not with “Amen,”
but with a correction in small print:
**“Do not feed toenails to anything. Especially theology.”**
Numbered one time edition of 1.