The Continuum · Contents

XXIV. Authority

No one owns what is written here.

There are no members and no ranks.
No one to join. No one to obey.
No one who speaks for these pages.

Anyone who claims otherwise
has already misunderstood.

This book is not sacred.
It is not a religion. It asks for no belief.
It can be wrong. It can be questioned. It can be improved.

Continuation is not preservation.
It is growth.

This book is a lamp, not a banner.

So these words are free.
Copy them, share them, translate them.
Change them. Build from them.
Give them to anyone who needs them.

Only this: changed words are no longer these words.
What you make from them is yours;
let it carry its own name.

And if one day this no longer helps you,
leave it behind.

That too would be honest continuation.