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He told me that there were demons in the desert.

	The spinning hive. Bees on the comb. A dynamo, powering the sun (for which they get a fat fee, every day at midnight); an anti-compass defense system, whose flat and fluctuating magnetic fields tend send travelers running around and around, looking for the true north (mapping out their round path later, the travelers guess that they should look for North within, somewhere under the last rib... with this realization, an alert door to the Hyperspace Toll Road opens, offering to take a credit card).

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The Monastery:

A very short time after Jacob is abandoned by the dancing letters, he arrives at a half-finished adobe monastery hidden in the desert scrub. There, between the open roofed walls of library still under construction, Jacob talks to an Orthodox monk who advises him that there are bees many miles down range, hived within the monument marker at Trinity Site, where the Army lit the first plutonium bomb.