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    Java's Dream
    Java's Dream
    Java's Dream
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    Java's Dream

    By John Ivor

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    Before history, humanity begins when a strange fork-legged creature challenges bestial tradition. In making this moral stand, Java and his mate risk all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarling Newspaper Press
    Release dateOct 31, 2009
    ISBN9781452309682
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      Java's Dream - John Ivor

      JAVA’S DREAM

      by John Ivor

      © Copyright John Ivor

      Smashwords Edition 2009

      Published by Darling Newspaper Press

      danpress@optusnet.com.au

      http://www.booktaste.com

      PO box 176, Kalamunda, Western Australia 6926.

      First published by Darling Newspaper Press as Book One of Strive, hardback print 2000, paperback 2008 isbn 9780959063066.

      Smashwords edition licence notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or if it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

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      Builder of dreams, born out of my time,

      Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?

      - William Morris

      ONE of the greatest events has received no mention in humanity’s written records. It took place in the Dreamtime, when the sun each day came up in the north, curved across a sky that shimmered with cosmic purity, and settled beyond The Great Southland.

      Most of Planet Earth lay beneath the waters, but the mighty peaks and vast plains of Yilgarnia formed the oldest and largest solid mass, as they do to this day. Much of this territory covered an area that would later subside and become known as the Indian Ocean, and some of it stretched as far as the South Pole.

      Its eastern shore looked over an ocean that covered the continent now called Australia, and eventually this coast would form the geological rim of the new land and carry proud names such as the Stirling Range and the Darling Range, and remain to remind scholars of the ancient times.

      From the needle-tipped summits, which over millions of years eroded shorter, flatter and rounder, a mighty river carved out valleys to empty itself into the Nullarbor Ocean, that future desert and future wonderland of underground caves and limestone blowholes. And across this ocean, far far to the north where the day began, the tropical jungles gave shelter to the most cruel and most cunning of the predators.

      A two-legged creature of small teeth and large brain, it had learned to stand erect, to walk prong-toed, and to make fire. This history begins as the beast is about to undergo another momentous advance, one that divorced it finally and forever from the animals ― the capacity to make moral judgment.

      The Great Cave of Da was full and noisy and the fires threw wavelets of shadow upon smooth rocks and brutish faces. Near the front of the throng, which was milling around a cleared flat space, sat Java: calm, confident, determined.

      I'll refuse, he muttered to his mate.

      The female, naked like Java, narrowed her thick-ridged eyebrows and quivered her jaws. No. Da kill you.

      Java touched the new hunting club beside him, completed earlier that day, balanced as never before, sharp fluting around its stone head, the wooden shaft curved delicately to fit his palms. "Maybe I kill

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