Perish The Universe, Provided I Have My

This Veridic Nose Arrives Everywhere A Quarter Of An Hour Before Its Master. Ten Shoemakers, Good Round Fat Ones Too, Go And Sit Down To Work Under It Out Of The Rain.

The People Of Your World Became So Stupid And Rude That My Companions And I No Longer Enjoyed Teaching Them. You Must Surely Have Heard Of Us: We Were Called Oracles, Nymphs, Spirits, Fairies, Household Gods, Lemures, Larvas, Lamias, Sprites, Water-nymphs, Incubi, Shades, Spirits Of The Dead, Specters And Ghosts.

For An Apple Is In It Self A Little Universe; The Seed, Hotter Than The Other Parts Thereof, Is Its Sun, Which Diffuses About It Self That Natural Heat Which Preserves Its Globe: And In The Onion, The Germ Is The Little Sun Of That Little World, Which Vivifies And Nourishes The Vegetative Salt Of That Little Mass.

In It He Proves That All Things Are True And States How The Truths Of All Contradictions May Be Reconciled Physically, Such As For Example That White Is Black And Black Is White; That One Can Be And Not Be At The Same Time; That There Can Be Hills Without Valleys; That Nothingness Is Something And That Everything, Which Is, Is Not. But Take Note That He Proves All These Unheard-of Paradoxes Without Any Fallacious Or Sophistical Reasoning.

'and For My Part, Gentlemen,' Said I, 'that I May Put In For A Share, And Guess With The Rest; Not To Amuse Myself With Those Curious Notions Wherewith You Tickle And Spur On Slow-paced Time; I Believe, That The Moon Is A World Like Ours, To Which This Of Ours Serves Likewise For A Moon.'