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“The
world-child has been told that this is a world,” said the head, “and it
believes it; it is the energy of this belief that binds the world
together. The world-child holds in its mind the idea of every single
thing: root and stone, tree and mountain, river and ocean and every living
thing. The world-child holds in its mind the idea of woman and man, the
idea of love.”
“Who
told the world-child all this that it now believes?” I said.
“Each
thing told itself to the world-child: the tree; the mountain; the ocean;
the woman; the man. You and I, we have told ourselves to it.”
“And
the idea of love? Who told that to the world-child?”
“It
didn’t have to be told,” said the head. “This idea arises of itself
from that energy of belief that keeps the mountains from exploding and
the seas from going up in steam. It’s only a kind of cohesion that
binds together possibilities that have spun together out of the
blackness.”
from
The Medusa Frequency
Extracted from Mr Hoban’s
novel and dropped on 4 February 2008 in celebration of his eighty-third
birthday [visit www.sa4qe.com for details]
Happy
Birthday Russ! |