The circus arrives without warning.
No announcements precede it, no posters needed. One night the sky ripples, and there it is—neon tents blooming across dimensions, zero-G Ferris sphere spinning in vacuum, shape-shifting clowns juggling stars.
Welcome to Zurvan’s Odditorium Phantasmagoria.
Zurvan—Eternity Man’s chronal twin, the “moving point” to his brother’s “fixed”—runs the show. Charismatic, narcissistic, eternally bored. He offers wonder to the elite across realities. But, the real business happens in the shadowed tents: black-market trade in forbidden goods.
The hottest commodity? Residual Somnolent—crude drops scraped from empty vials traded by desperate addicts. Zurvan tries endlessly to replicate the true elixir. He fails every time. The secret isn’t chemistry. It’s something older, something alien. Something the Vitruvian Man map alone can brew.
The circus is the perfect front: spectacle hides the deals, chaos covers the cost.
And Zurvan? He just smiles, waiting for the day his brother finally says yes.
Neon gates swing wide
Crowds line up from distant stars
A show you can’t miss
Tents pulse they’re alive
Rides spin fast at zero-G
Space reality
Call: Welcome to the Big Top —
Response: Lose your yesterday
Call: I’m Zurvan in the center ring —
Response: Forever starts today
Call: Once inside the Odditorium —
Response: There’s no going back
Eternity’s just the opening act
Ladies, gentlemen, and beings of every dimension
Welcome to the Odditorium Phantasmagoria!
Where time loops rewind
Trans-dimensional subterfuge steals your Zen
Transcendental medication relieves your stress
Inter-temporal relativism
Takes you where you never end up going
Step right up…
On a laser wire
Walker balances with death
Rapt crowd holds its breath
Beast in center ring
Shape-shifts and morphs on command
Clown car brings chaos
Call: Welcome to the Big Top —
Response: Lose your yesterday
Call: I’m Zurvan in the center ring —
Response: Forever starts today
Call: Once inside the Odditorium —
Response: There’s no going back
Eternity’s just the opening act
Bar brings artsy muse
Musicians with alien touch
Plasma harps warp time
Möbius coaster ride
Yesterday thru tomorrow
Loops that never end
Forever starts today
Eternity’s just the opening act
Lose your yesterday
Waiting for tomorrow to begin
At the Odditorium Phantasmagoria
Lyrics and music by T Atkinson
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