And then the Universe paused and settled with a little fluttering
sound of wonder. The onceuponatime Moment entered the room....
"There was a thing that nobody could understand," began the deep,
gruff voice. "And this thing that nobody could understand was
something no one understood at all."
"That's twice they couldn't understand it," observed Judy, in the
slight pause he made for effect.
"It was alive," he went on, "and very beautiful, so beautiful, in
fact, that people were astonished and felt rather ashamed because they
couldn't understand it. Some declared it wasn't worth understanding at
all; others said it might be worth understanding if they had the time
to think about it; and the rest decided that it was nothing much, and
promptly forgot that it existed. Their lives grew rather dull in
consequence. A few, however, set to work to discover what it was. For
the beauty of it set something in them strangely burning."
"It was a firework, I think," remarked Maria, then felt she had said
quite an awful thing. For Tim just looked at her. "It's alive, Uncle
Felix told you," he stated. She was obliterated--for the moment.
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