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Monday, April 30, 2007

how people came to be.

hey so, ive been reading this book and it had a little something about stars that i really liked.
the book in general didnt really have much to do about stars, except for one character who was really into them.
so yea, just thought id share this with all of you.
hope ya like it.
If there was a religion of Annaism, and i had to tell you how humans made their way to earth, it would go like this: in the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most things happen, she poked a hole in the night and spilled out a million stars, like a fountain of tears. Horrified, the moon tried to swallow them up. And sometimes this worked, because she got fatter and rounder. But mostly it didnt, because there were just so many. The stars kept coming, until they made the sky so bright the sun got jealous. He invited the stars to his side of the world, where it was always bright. What he didnt tell them, though, was that in the daytime, theyd never be seen. So the stupid ones leaped from the sky to the ground, and they froze under the weight of their own foolishness. The moon did her best. She carved each of these blocks of sorrow into a man or a woman. She spent the rest of her time watching out so that her other stars wouldnt fall. She spent the rest of her time holding onto whatever scraps she had left.

4 comments:

Joy said...

Lihz, thank you so much for this. It is totally awesome. What's the book? I'm curious.

lihz said...

my sisters keeper.
its about a girl who was born solely for the purpose to save her older sister who has cancer.

Joy said...

damn. sounds intense. i'll look for it in my bookshop.

lihz said...

yea its really good.
but im giving you a fair warning on the ending.


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