They pass along these same bad habits tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, and it becomes psychologically genetic, like a curse. Wondering why does that guy–myself–keep punishing me? But they never learn and instead come to settle for that behavior, eventually learning to ask and expect nothing of themselves. So then they wake up, new Today Man, groaning at the disrespect Yesterday Man showed them. They don’t respect Tomorrow Man because they don’t think through the fact that Tomorrow Man will be them. They eat whatever the hell they want, drink like the night will never end, and then fall asleep to forget. But those who are in a bad way, with poor mental health, they constantly leave these messes for Tomorrow Man to clean up. And now he has a legacy to pass on to his subsequent selves…. He knows that someone–himself–was looking out for him. He looks upon him fondly as a child might a good parent. They eat right today, they drink right today, they go to sleep early today–all so that Tomorrow Man, when he awakes in his bed reborn as Today Man, thanks Yesterday Man.
Now, those who are in good spirits, with strong mental health, they look out for their Tomorrow Man. Each and every night, we lie down to die, and each morning we arise, reborn.
Hugo Blackwood, whose life has been extended by magical means, has devoted the intervening centuries to hunting them down.“The Tomorrow Man theory. More than 400 years later, those entities - the “hollow ones” of the title - are still active.
No angels come forth, but - in an act reminiscent of Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan” - Dee manages to open a door between realms, allowing malign entities to enter our world. In their version, local barrister Hugo Blackwood is also present for the attempt, which goes disastrously wrong. The authors focus on Dee’s well-documented attempt to draw forth an angel from a mysterious orb. The second is set in the England of 1562, where John Dee - real-life scholar/mage and member of Queen Elizabeth’s court - pursues his lifelong goal of reconciling science and magic. One takes place in the Jim Crow South of 1962, when Earl Solomon, then a young, untested FBI agent, encounters Hugo Blackwood during a similar case and begins a relationship that will encompass a lifetime of supernatural encounters. With these elements in place, the story proceeds along three separate timelines.
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