I have stretched my hand over the whole of the earth, I have given the fields yeast and the oceans yeast, the yeast of life I have given the mountains and the meadows and the valleys and the lakes, I have put everything into the order of spheres. I have put everything into its proper place and set everything in perfect motion with the perfection of the sphere, everything runs as orderly as a sphere and everything fits together as perfectly as a sphere, everything runs on a series of spheres; there are spheres in the rivers where the fish eat the mosquitoes, there are spheres in the lakes where the crawfish eat the minnows, there are spheres in the mountains where the bears strip the bushes of berries and eat roots and leaves, there are spheres in the mountain cat and the great whales of the oceans. I have given everything the order of spheres that you may take advantage of all this. You have taken advantage of all the order I have given everything, you have taken advantage of the order of my perfect spheres in everything, you have toiled and toiled and built and built, and you threaten to invade the heavens and tear down the throne. But look!—I have stretched my hand over the earth again, and removed the spheres, and removed the order and perfection. And look!—everything falls to the south, the potato plant is poisonous, the mountain cat eats berries and roots, and the bear eats all winter long. The whales now survive on sharks, human beings eat rocks and dirt to live—and it nourishes them—the sun gives off darkness and the nighttime is like light, the sun gives off coldness and the darkness is hot! There is no more cause and effect, there is no more experiment and prediction and rule and law, I have removed all laws, gravity has become a memory, the birds fall to the ground and the whales swim through the air, things with fins and scales give birth and human beings lay eggs, a woman gives birth to a litter of dogs and a bitch gives birth to fly maggots! This is all I have to do, O human beings, this is all I have to do; you believe there are laws in nature that are beyond my power to break; but all I have to do is remove the spheres in everything, and the order and perfection of the spheres, and there will be chaos in the land, the future won’t resemble the past, and it will be beyond your ability to comprehend a single thing.

 

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