I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and just as complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.
Yet each flower, each twig, each pebble, shines as though illuminated from within, as once before, on her first day in the Garden. It__ the stress, it__ the adrenalin, it__ a chemical effect: she knows this well enough. But why is it built in? she thinks. Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we__e about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?
The Year of the Flood
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Yet each flower, each twig, each pebble, shines as though illuminated from within, as once before, on her first day in the Garden. It__ the stress, it__ the adrenalin, it__ a chemical effect: she knows this well enough. But why is it built in? she thinks. Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we__e about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?
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