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of Liz Hand and John Clute in an online story in which we
participated.
The Consilience herein owes much to E.O. Wilson’s book,
Consilience . I also referred to Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe ,
Evan Walker’s The Physics of Consciousness , Julian Barbour’s The
End of Time (the source of the Nows and the reference to Romeo
and Juliet, which is from Figure 31 Space-time as a tapestry of
interwoven lovers), and The Non-local Universe by Robert Nadeau
and Menas Kafotos—all of which stand out among the seemingly
hundreds of books which fertilized Light Music .




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Matthew

Reverend Dania came to our town five years before I was born.
My name is Matthew. We live in the southeast corner of the Free
State of Colorado, not far from the Republic of Texas, where no one
ever goes. Dania came from there.
She doesn’t like people to call her Reverend, and I don’t. I just
call her Dania. Some of the old folks call her Reverend, though, and
my gramma gets mad at me if she hears me call her plain untitled
“Dania.”
When she first came to town, she preached what she called
“seeing.” It had to do with light. You might think that sounds
obvious— I know what “obvious” means—but instead it is the least
obvious thing imaginable. But it wasn’t just preaching. It was a
communion service and you had to drink a special wine that
Reverend Dania made. She told you flat-out that it was some kind
of genetic engineering stuff that would change your homeobox
genes—whatever they are—and give you a new gene for the type of
seeing that you would be doing. You could also find out about it
with the learning slates she kept in the old warehouse she used as a
church, with stuff about DNA that I couldn’t figure out. She said I
wasn’t quite old enough.
But one day I got some of the communion stuff, I just ran up
there and got some and Mom and Dad kind of shook their heads
when I walked back up the aisle. It was sweet and tasted good. I
was little then, but now I’m ten. I think they went to Dania’s
church because of Gramma, or just to be nice to Dania, or
something. I don’t think that they believe what she says like I do.
But it’s really just like the old Jesus church because you have to