we were always like this: since the dawn of Man, or before even then— when we were apes...

we were always like this: since the dawn of Man, or before even then— when we were apes killing each other; or when the first amino acids chained together on the early Earth; or before the sun, before the universe, when there only heat and energy coiled into negative space— all of it squeezed so tight till finally something cracked, and out came everything; space, time, great squalls of light and matter unfurling into existence. And at some point you came to the world, you put on clothes, lived soft and you forgot.  We were born Fire.