Chapter 3 Index: "The Blasted Heath"

Through fire, ash, and the fog of false prophets.

Chapter 3: The Blasted Heath

This chapter leads into fire and ash — Pompeii’s ruins, volcanic thunder, and Shakespeare’s witches — to ask how memory survives when truth fractures. Here legacies are scorched, language turns to fog, and the phantom “they” rises from the smoke.

Image: The Last Day of Pompeii (1830–1833), Karl Bryullov. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

• 🧭 Back to Begin Here.

• Chapter 1 Index: “Standing in the Ancient Shadow”

• Chapter 2 Index: “The Soul’s Ascent”

  • Field Note 3 3/4 — “The Rainbow Connection: Don’t Believe Everything You Think” (🎧 Listen)

• Waypoint 3.1 — “The Iron Key: Pompeii, Volcanic Fire, and The Locks of Time” (🎧 Listen)

  • Field Note 3.1: “The Blasted Stage: Kierkegaard’s Clown, Newsom’s Warning, and Trump’s Burning Theatre” (🎧 Listen)

• Waypoint 3.2 — “The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & The Birth of Outrage Media” 🔒

• Waypoint 3.2 — “Any Enemy” 🔒

• Waypoint 3.3 — “The Grass” 🔒

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