Narration: now he decided to run a thousand experiments simultaneously

Narration: an olive-grey stain to the naked eye

Narration: on a scale of 1,000,000 to 1. Under an electron microscope he twisted individual atoms in such a way that they gave rise to beings not much larger than microbes and called Angstromanians. A quarter of a million of these persons made a single culture, which was transferred by micropipette to a slide. Each such millimicrosocietal specimen was an olive-grey stain to the naked eye, and only under the highest magnification could one observe what transpired within.

Narration: much like the Lord God Himself parting the clouds

Narration: all operating at unheard-of levels of beneficence and stabilized against any sort of fanatical deviation by both heresy and orthodoxy stops; the cultures he mounted on slides, the slides he put in packets, and the packets in packages, all of which he then shelved and locked in a civilizing incubator for two and a half days. But first he placed over each culture a cover glass, crystal clear and tinted a pale blue, which was to serve as that civilization’s sky; he also supplied food and fuel by eyedropper, as well as raw materials to permit the fabrication of whatever the consensus omnium might find appropriate or necessary.