This world, like goat’s milk yogurt, will not solidify for quite some time.” Narin smiles. “You think the earth is a tub of yogurt?” “Oh, definitely…It ferments, it thickens, and, although it is solid now, it can never forget that it was once liquid.” “What does that mean?” “It means it’s still roiling inside. We don’t hear it but there’s water underneath, churning. There are cycles in nature, cycles in history. We call them dewr. Between the end of an era and the beginning of a new one, there’s always a period of confusion, and those are the hardest times, may God help us all.” “Are we now in
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