CHAPTER 11 dIn the beginning was the void, and the void was all there was, for a long long time.
2 And then there was something that was not the void,
3 Although maybe it still was,
4 Really,
5 And just looked like it wasn't,
6 Being an eillusion,
7 And a pretty convincing one at that,
8 To everything that was part of the illusion,
9 Unless it wasn't an illusion,
10 But really separate from the void,
11 And actually came into existence somehow,
12 Even though it's impossible to know,
13 And wouldn't change anything anyhow,
14 fBecause this was a long long long time ago,
15 Before there were ggods,
16 Before there were hmen,
17 Before there was ilife as we know it,
18 Before there were jplanets,
19 And even before the very first kstar exploded into existence,
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20 Or into the lillusion of existence,
21 Which amounts to the same thing,
22 When all is said and done,
23 Because back then, there was nobody to notice the difference,
24 Or pretend there was a difference,
25 Which makes it all pretty irrelevant.
CHAPTER 21 Skipping ahead a few hundred million years,
2 mIt turned out that the void got pretty full of stars and planets and other stellar material,
3 Unless it was all an illusion,
4 Until there was something that regarded itself as nintelligent life on oone of the planets,
5 Unless this was also an illusion,
6 pEven if it would be pretty hard to tell for sure,
7 Because the something that regarded itself as intelligent life was pretty sure that it existed,
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