THE FUNDAMENTAL INCONSISTENCY OF DEVOLUTION

no ... you wouldn't want to talk to him ... some say he was high up ... some say the highest of them all ... think how much lower than the rest he would have to fall ... how low he is now and how low descending ... that would be some elevator ride up all that way back if anything went wrong during the conversation ... now here's a guy who would rather snuff you out than profit by you ... one who isn't suffused with matter but who infuses it and controls it ... one who doesn't just gaze at the stars but was present at their creation ... was present before both time and space ... before the rainbow he knew its elements and formation ... where you see light the most profound and elevating he saw it all first before you ... and by it he was overwhelmed ... call it grace or beauty ... but in the middle of his rapture he asked himself a question ... whose ... I guess at first he might have meant where in that who there was any room for him ... but not in the end ... by the end he knew whose splendor it was ... and what he had instead was only murder and the lie ... (a)