and gas and headlong combat of matter and gravity, and this is August. Four days later the earth came about, and a day after that its moon. September 14th, four billion years ago (or so some think) came life of sorts, some intrepid little single-celled things that invited themselves into existence in a moment of unthinking and didn’t know the holy mess they’d make, and two weeks later on September 30th some of these bacteria learned to absorb infrared and produce sulphates and a month after that the greatest feat of all, to absorb visible light and produce oxygen, our breathable liveable
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