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LEVELLING THE LAND

For days on end the trucks drove back and forth in an attempt to level the land and make it as smooth as the back of your hand... Filling up holes alternated with knocking down mounds, following a clever method involving a compensatory divergence exchange mechanism; and the results were spectacular...The levelling was accomplished to such perfection that a marble with a given trajectory, would reach the opposite end without deviating from its path in the slightest...The moral of the story is that patience has its own rewards. Sometimes many years afterwards.
If by inordinate bad luck death should occur before the reward we can hope as a last resort that the living will take note of it, if their attentions are not too distracted...