The barges and the necessary question
Page 512 He found therein water that had been elsewhere.
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3 Elements forged in ancient stars.
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4 Genes inherited through lineages older than memory.
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5 Food becoming tissue.
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6 Air entering and leaving.
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7 Microbes living with him.
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8 Memories formed in relationship.
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9 And I shit you not, the border around the word self became interesting.
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10 Ether said: I did not arrive in the universe.
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11 I am something the universe is currently doing.
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12 And the Society preserved the sentence.
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13 Yet the sentence doth not require that a rock thinketh as a person thinketh, nor that a crystal possesseth human cognition.
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14 The Society may wonder where awareness begins without pretending the answer hath already been measured.
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15 Thus wonder remaineth free, and evidence remaineth evidence.
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ETHER / CHAPTER 3
The barges and the necessary question
Jared’s people prepare eight vessels; a practical defect survives a spiritual description; the builder asks what the passengers will actually need.
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Stones for light: a detail, not a drawing of the vessel.
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1 And I shit you not, Jared and his brother prepared vessels for the great water, and the vessels were tight like unto a dish.
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2 An inspector admired the tightness and repeated the phrase until the brother of Jared asked whether anyone had sat inside with the door closed.