From January 7, 2019... And now for something completely different . . . as is often announced on The Monty Python Show , a comedy series hailing from England. In contrast, today begins an epic poem that is not on the humorous side, but neither does it carry undue darkness. I have been working on this epic poem, intermittently, for over twenty years. Long gaps intersperse periods of serious effort attending to this work that is approaching 200 pages. Yes, we’re in this for the long haul. The presentation of this story bares a minimal resemblance to Wannaska World (a sister narrative effort of Wannaskan Almanac’s writers in mid-2018) in that both Wannaska World and The One are written in serialized form, and both are stories. But that’s where the resemblance ends. Epics have been written around the globe for thousands of years. Perhaps the oldest is The Epic of Gilgamesh , from Sumeria (modern-day Iraq), written some time prior to 2000 BCE. From neighboring Iran, written in the
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