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Plain edition
The book in plain words
The same book, told at a 5th-grade reading level — a faithful translation of the river, sentence by sentence, never a separate argument. Each passage is built from one gesture of the original, and every original sits one click away. In progress, chapter by chapter.
954 / 954 gestures translated (100%)
- Overture How to Become a Wizard and Save the World
- Prologue Prologue: Look Up
- Some Days It Costs Too Much
- Two Cities
- Initiation Becoming Wizards in the Woods
- The Cook
- Nobody Asked Him To
- Even That Part
- The Hollow Book
- Initiation The Speaking of Names
- The Smile
- The Colony
- No Name for It
- Initiation The Orgone Accumulator
- Initiation Re-Enchanting the World
- He Built It Anyway
- The Birds She Fed Through the Bars
- The Circle in the Blizzard
- Initiation The Angel Faces Backward
- This Was Made
- Initiation The Wizard's Walk
- We''re Canceling It
- I Became the Land
- Still Meeting
- The Owl at the Edge of the Circle
- You Wonderful Weird Birds
- Interlude The Djinn
- Epilogue Epilogue: The Doves