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                       MEANWHILE, at the Chinese laundromat...
       
                       DOGMA I - METAPHYSICS #2, "COSMOLOGY"*
       
                               THE BOOK OF THE UTERUS
                            from The Honest Book of Truth
                                revealed to Lord Omar
       
                                         -I-
       
           1.  Before the beginning was the Nonexistent Chao, balanced in 
       Oblivion by the Perfect Counterpushpull of the Hodge and the Podge.
           2.  Whereupon, by an Act of Happenstance, the Hodge began 
       gradually to overpower the Podge - and the Primal Chaos thereby came 
       to be.
           3.  So in the beginning was the Primal Chaos, balanced on the Edge 
       of Oblivion by the Perfect Counterpushpull of the Podge and the Hodge.
           4.  Whereupon, by the Law of Negative Reversal,** the Podge 
       swiftly underpowered the Hodge and Everything broke loose.
           5.  And therein emerged the Active Force of Discord, the Subtle 
       Manifestation of the Nonexistent Chao, to guide Everything along the 
       Path back to Oblivion - that it might not become lost among Precepts 
       of Order to the Region of Thud.
           6.  Forasmuch as it was Active, the Force of Discord entered the 
       State of Confusion, wherein It copulated with the Queen and begat 
       ERIS, Our Lady of Discord and Gross Manifestation of the Nonexistent 
       Chao.
           7.  And under Eris Confusion became established, and was hence 
       called Bureaucracy; while over Bureaucracy Eris became established, 
       and was hence called Discordia.
           8.  By the by it came to pass that the Establishment of 
       Bureaucracy perished in a paper shortage.
           9.  Thus it was, in accord with the Law of Laws.
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