NP but The Books of Jacob

[David Morris]

OK.  Now I’m getting interested.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 5:10 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> SPOILER ALERT as I type out a great passage from the book,
>  this and some happenings in the sand remind imaginatively of
> TRP, the sand trek echoing in me--and you?-- parts of AtD, I suggest.......
> It does not read to me like any influence on her but who knows?  just an
> imagination likeness.
>
> But this:           Of how the world was born of God's exhaustion
>
> "Every now and then, God wearies of his own luminous silence, and infinity
> starts to make him
> feel a little sick. Then, like an enormous omnisenstiive oyster, hs
> body---so naked and delicate--feels
> the slightest tremble in the particles of light, scrunches up inside
> itself, leaving just enough space for
> the emergence ---at once and out of nowhere--of a world. The world comes
> quick, though at first it resembles
> mold, delicate and pale, but soon it grows, and individual fibers connect,
> creating a powerful surrounding tissue.
> Then it hardens; then it starts to take on colors. This is accompanied by a
> low, barely audible sound, a
> gloomy vibration that makes the anxious atoms quake. And it is from this
> motion that particles come into being,
> and then grains of sand and drops of water, which divide the world in two.
>      We find ourselves on the side of sand. "---Chap 5, p. 870 (the pages
> run backward numerically!)
>
> Ancient folktale-like created legend cum modern science storytelling
> mystery of the cosmos. Will become famous, I say...
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