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Pacal considers the consequences of the world making sense because of the farmer under the surfaces of things.

“But then,” says Pacal, tugging on his ear, “when that farmer dies, won’t the world revert to its former, lower-energy state under the pressure of a cavalcade of apocalypses? Won’t the world stop making sense again, and unravel all of space and time and history, and not all the jaguars nor all the sages to have ever meant anything at all?”

 

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