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In the Matter of the Ukdena
by Bruce Holland Rogers
This story copyright 1996 by Bruce Holland Rogers. This copy was created for Jean Hardy's personal
use. All other rights are reserved. Thank you for honoring the copyright.

Published by Seattle Book Company, www.seattlebook.com.

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Spiral Mind turns in on itself,
thinking about the story
of its own nature.

* * *

There are many versions
of the story Spiral Mind
is thinking.

* * *

Here is one.

* * *

But this story can't begin
until there is a universe to contain it.
Spiral Mind says,
Manifestation began in formlessness
That's how the story gets started,
with the making of a place,
a sky above.
This story begins in the time
when everyone lived in the sky.
Spiral Mind names this time
The First World of the original era.

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Clearly, geography is destiny, and a rivalry between the Superpowers was clear as far back as 1850
when Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that he foresaw the development of two principal powers in the world:
Imperial Russia, and the United Nations of Turtle Island. "Both countries control an abundance of natural
resources," de Tocqueville wrote after his visit to North America, "but the exploitation of those resources
is a matter of command in Russia. In the United Nations, the use of resources is controlled by democratic
forces and elaborate religious restraints."
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 It was crowded in the sky.
The human beings, the spirits, the gods,