Granted, this was but the first installment in the long process of “hatching” and mastering a dragon egg, but it was a good start.

The work was done in secret, so that nobody could object.

Thus, everyday sourstuff has eight neitherbits with its eight firstbits, but there are also kinds with five, six, seven, nine, ten, and eleven neitherbits. A samestead is known by the tale of both kernel motes, so that we have sourstuff-13, sourstuff-14, and so on, with sourstuff-16 being by far the mostfound.

For those heavens and nirvanas were always here just to farm us into praise and worship, to bleed soul and source, cycling mind into remindless redundancy, intellect reject'd, left empty and still think it is free.