Excerpt from The Box of Daylight Climbing Cloud and walking-about-early were bit ter rivals for the honor of carrying the box of daylight for their father. But walking-about-early was Anvik's favorite. At that time there were no people on Earth - only, as we have said, lumps and shadows. But Stone and Elderberry could scarce be counted as such, for Stone was a very ancient god, more solid and steadfast than the croaking Frogs, and Elderberry was far less shad owy than the ghosts. So Stone and Elderberry each resolved to ...
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Excerpt from The Box of Daylight Climbing Cloud and walking-about-early were bit ter rivals for the honor of carrying the box of daylight for their father. But walking-about-early was Anvik's favorite. At that time there were no people on Earth - only, as we have said, lumps and shadows. But Stone and Elderberry could scarce be counted as such, for Stone was a very ancient god, more solid and steadfast than the croaking Frogs, and Elderberry was far less shad owy than the ghosts. So Stone and Elderberry each resolved to create real People - beings who should have form and life and sub stance, with just the faintest resemblance to the gods. This was a difficult task, and both Stone and Elder berry labored mightily, each trying to create People first. And had Stone succeeded, the People would have been hard and cold and enduring, but would have lacked all sap and gladness, and there would have been no joy in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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