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Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reasons.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
‘And now, ladies and gentlemen,’ he beamed, ‘is everyone having one last wonderful time?’ ‘Yes,’ called out the sort of people who call out ‘yes’ when comedians ask them if they’re having a wonderful time.
