I want to welcome everyone back to part 16 of my reading of genre spells Camp of the Saints.

I want to remind you that episode

is only available on my website,

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forward slash debate.

and go check it out.

It's also on rumble, bit shoot, and Odyssey.

So, all right, it looks like we're gonna be able to get in three chapters here today, 43, 44, and 45,

considering there is only 51 chapters, looks like we're almost done.

All right, here we go.

The West had just been through its longest day.

This was the shortest.

In five minutes, everything was settled.

And although the shock left a score of cadaver's lying on the beach, evenly divided between the two sides still, it wouldn't be right to speak of a battle or a skirmish or even a scuffle in fact.

It was, without question, by far the least deadly of all mankind's

total wars. What struck the West observers the most, those few who would speak to historians

later, was clearly the smell.

They all described it in much the same terms.

It stunk to high heaven, it bold you over,

wouldn't let you breathe.

As the decks sprang to life with their myriad bodies, men, women, children, steeping and dung and debris since

Calcutta.

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