for: To be given consciousness and purpose while its gift of existence
lasts.
It is written:
That this is a random process;
That in the end all will be darkness and silence again;
But that while it lasts, life spreads through it, to make it aware of its
own vastness and beauty, which otherwise it can never have known.
This is a gift; but the Giver is unknown.
That too is written.
190
And all the Stars a Stage 191
1086 A.D.: A sudden glare of light in the constellation later called Taurus.
The Chinese astronomer Tang Yaou-Shun marks it down: A new and marvelous
star, portending miracles.
But the miracle has already happened. It sleeps inside Yaou-Shun, in twelve
of his genes.