EARTH
If the Earth
were only a few feet in
diameter, floating a few feet above
a field somewhere, people would come
from everywhere to marvel at it. People would
walk around it, marveling at its big pools of water,
its little pools, and the water flowing between the pools.
People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes
in it, and
they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding
it and
the water suspended in the gas. The people would
marvel at all the
creatures walking around the surface of the ball and
at the creatures in
the water. The people would declare it as sacred
because it was the
only one, and they would protect it so that it would
not be hurt. The
ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would
come
to pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know
beauty,
and to wonder how it could be. People would love
it, and
defend it with their lives because they would somehow
know that their lives, their own roundness,
would be nothing without it. If the
Earth were only a few feet
in diameter.