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Once upon a time,* a gardener and a winnower lived** together in a garden.*** | Once upon a time,* a gardener and a winnower lived** together in a garden.*** | ||
* It was once before a time, because time had not yet begun. | * It was once before a time, because time had not yet begun. | ||
** We did not live. We existed as principles of ontological dynamics that emerged from mathematical structures, as bodiless and inevitable as the primes. | ** We did not live. We existed as principles of ontological dynamics that emerged from mathematical structures, as bodiless and inevitable as the primes. | ||
*** It was the field of possibility that prefigured existence. | *** It was the field of possibility that prefigured existence. | ||
They existed, because they had to exist. They had no antecedent and no constituents, and there is no instrument of causality by which they could be portioned into components and assigned to some schematic of their origin. If you followed the umbilical of history in search of some ultimate atavistic embryo that became them, you would end your journey marooned here in this garden. | They existed, because they had to exist. They had no antecedent and no constituents, and there is no instrument of causality by which they could be portioned into components and assigned to some schematic of their origin. If you followed the umbilical of history in search of some ultimate atavistic embryo that became them, you would end your journey marooned here in this garden. | ||