"The instinct is destroyed by the physiology.
"The physiology is destroyed by the anatomy.... How do you like my eyes?"
"Very," said Gud, "for your pupils shine as unborn souls of May-green stars floating in the nebulous nonentity."
After which her butler came to say that Messrs. Confucius and Buddha were calling.
Chapter XLIX
We have built our own skyscrapers
Out of slender metal girders,
We have flung our shining cities,
Reaped our harvests from the sod....
With our paths of empire crimson
From a list of countless murders,
We go shrieking down the darkness,
Bent on worshipping a god.
Chapter L
Gud came around a bend in the Impossible Curve and lo, the Curve broadened into a great highway which was very smooth. The way had been rough before, so Gud now rejoiced and struck his staff gleefully on the pavement, as he walked on in the middle of the great highway. But ere he had progressed far, there came from behind him an agonizing shriek, as of a man being flayed alive because he loved his neighbor's wife.