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0-Time
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The 2012 Trilogy III
Peter Galarneau, Jr.
 
Peter Galarneau, Jr.II
Foreword
0-Time
Why in the world did I call this nal volumeof such a long and labored love,
0-Time 
? And why 
oh why did I decide to spread the third volumeout into three pieces, creating a trilogy itself?
Why indeed.
I suppose the most logical reason for the
0-Time 
title reects an end point, a runningout of time. A Judgment Day, perhaps. But I
can honestly say that this was not the initial
reason I chose it. And it wasn’t because 0-Timeis easier to pronounce than the titles of the rsttwo novels in the Trilogy. 0-Time came aboutas an amalgamation of ideas presented by theMayan Long Count and by a man named Terence
McKenna.
You may have heard of the Long Count. It was one of the calendars used by the AncientMaya which has as its end date December 21,2012. This date is the last of a 26,000-year cycle.It is the alpha and the omega. It is when one Age
 
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ends and another begins. It is 0-Time.McKenna, however, you may not know.He was the “mushroom researcher” whosemathematical transformation of the Chinese
classic text
I-Ching 
inspired what is known as Timewave Zero. Timewave Zero postulates thattime ebbs and ows as moments of novelty.Unfortunately for humanity, McKenna’s Timewave ends with a singularity. And the date of this cataclysmic event? You guessed it.Mathematics plus prophesies plus ancienttexts and calendars. Antithetical chunksof knowledge that all lead in one purported
direction.
0-Time.As for the second question: Why a trilogy within a trilogy? Foremost, the reason concernstiming, both in the use of my own (time) andthat which ticks forever closer to 0-Time. Asa full-time professor, I basically have three tofour months (known as summer) with which tototally become absorbed in the characters I have
created.
The Cubit 
was written over four summers
and
The Djed 
, over a six-month sabbatical fromteaching. I did not want my dedicated readers to wait three entire summers for the third volume.Besides, writing
0-Time 
this way would provide
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