This is a cell.
Like all cells, it is born from an existing cell.
And by extension, all cells were ultimately born from one cell.
A single organism alone on planet Earth, perhaps alone in the Universe, about four billion years ago one became two, two became four, then eight, sixteen, thirty-two, the rhythm of the dividing pair which becomes the structure of every microbe, blade of grass, sea creature, land creature and human.
The structure of everything that lives and everything that dies.
-Okay, it was covert. Yeah, I think so.
-Pakistan again?
-I, I don’t know where it was, or what it was.
-How is that possible? Was it, was it warm? Was there snow? Did the people there speak Portuguese, or Swahili, or Pashto?
Where are you going?
You’re going into the Shimmer?
You’re not going to let me go home?
Is that what you want? To go home?
