The Country of the Blind

“Is this all?” asked the Lord God.

The angel at the book—­it was one of countless volumes, like the British Museum Reading-room Catalogue, glanced at us and seemed to count us in the instant.

“That’s all,” he said, and added:  “It was, O God, a very little planet.”

The eyes of God surveyed us.

“Let us begin,” said the Lord God.