Many years ago there was a man and there was a woman.
They walked the earth together in harmony, talking to each other, singing the same songs at the same times. They watched flowers grow, trees lose their leaves in winter, animals run and die and play. When they looked into each other's eyes they saw their own reflection, and below the reflection, the truth of the other.
Over time massive walls erupted from the earth. Buildings nine miles high and twice as long and four times as wide grew from the bedrock of the earth in uncontrollable swarms so awful and fantastic at the same time. Water stopped flowing through brooks and in its place bolts of electricity and information traversed the rivers of the world.
The man and the woman were, for the first time, separated. Somehow they had found themselves in different locations, both surrounded by unfamiliar sights and a despair brought on by being alone in the staggeringly endless crowd of humans. He did not know where she was, and she did not know where he was.
And so the man called out to God: 'I cannot find rhythm anymore--these houses and roads are molding with no rhyme or reason! Where is my love? Has she died with everyone else?'
And the woman likewise: 'My love has vanished across the plains, he has evaporated into the stillness of the din and without him I cannot hear myself think or love or cry!'
And the Lord understood the pain of the couple. He walked along the planes of dimensions higher than human numbers have the power to express and from the finest quarry in heaven moulded a sphere. He hung it in the heavens, closer to earth than any other object in the entire cosmos, lit by the same light as that of the earth.
When the man and the woman saw the orb glimmering from its position in space, they knew they were looking into the eyes of their companion, for in spite of the horribly spliced mix of culture and humanity separating them, they were individually identical and knew exactly where they were.
And God said that it was marvelous.
They walked the earth together in harmony, talking to each other, singing the same songs at the same times. They watched flowers grow, trees lose their leaves in winter, animals run and die and play. When they looked into each other's eyes they saw their own reflection, and below the reflection, the truth of the other.
Over time massive walls erupted from the earth. Buildings nine miles high and twice as long and four times as wide grew from the bedrock of the earth in uncontrollable swarms so awful and fantastic at the same time. Water stopped flowing through brooks and in its place bolts of electricity and information traversed the rivers of the world.
The man and the woman were, for the first time, separated. Somehow they had found themselves in different locations, both surrounded by unfamiliar sights and a despair brought on by being alone in the staggeringly endless crowd of humans. He did not know where she was, and she did not know where he was.
And so the man called out to God: 'I cannot find rhythm anymore--these houses and roads are molding with no rhyme or reason! Where is my love? Has she died with everyone else?'
And the woman likewise: 'My love has vanished across the plains, he has evaporated into the stillness of the din and without him I cannot hear myself think or love or cry!'
And the Lord understood the pain of the couple. He walked along the planes of dimensions higher than human numbers have the power to express and from the finest quarry in heaven moulded a sphere. He hung it in the heavens, closer to earth than any other object in the entire cosmos, lit by the same light as that of the earth.
When the man and the woman saw the orb glimmering from its position in space, they knew they were looking into the eyes of their companion, for in spite of the horribly spliced mix of culture and humanity separating them, they were individually identical and knew exactly where they were.
And God said that it was marvelous.
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