The Chance Meeting Of Gaia and Theia

“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done. ” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this? ” he asked politely.

“Everything must have a purpose? ” asked God.

“Certainly, ” said man.

“Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this, ” said God.

And He went away. ”
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“There will be time, there will be time

To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;

There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,

And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea. ”
T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems

Lacrimosa, Requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Xaver Sussmayr