Comparisons

If you compare a bomb to a stick of gum, the resulting bubbles will carry dead mice to heaven’s peculiar back-door garden where they will, at last, encounter the guardian angel-mouse of teaspoon paraphernalia. Here, they will be introduced to the reason humans were endowed with intelligence, and will discover that the purpose of human intelligence was to destroy itself in various incredibly sophisticated ways during the mouse’s evolutionary childhood so that, specifically, once we had obliterated ourselves, -they- could rise to sentient domination not only of our world, but of the history of intelligence on Earth. In the refrigerator I keep photographs of various surgical apparatus. One of these is coated with an intelligent explosive that can detect the identity and purposes of anyone opening the door. One day, nothing will happen. And then that photograph will suddenly visit a small girl in Bulgaria who will become the virgin mother of a mouse prince. Be careful what you use as a measure of comparison to any specific stick of gum.