Intelligent Design {the new yorker -}
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/09/26/050926sh_shouts
Day No. 1:
And the Lord God said, Let there be light, and lo, there was light. But then the Lord God said, Wait, what if I make it a sort of rosy, sunset-at-the-beach, filtered half-light, so that everything else I design will look younger?
Im loving that, said Buddha. Its new.
You should design a restaurant, added Allah.
Day No. 2:
Today, the Lord God said, lets do land. And lo, there was land.
Well, its really not just land, noted Vishnu. Youve got mountains and valleys andis that lava?
Its not a single statement, said the Lord God. I want it to say, Yes, this is land, but its not afraid to ooze.
Its really a backdrop, a sort of blank canvas, put in Apollo. Its, like, minimalism, only with scale.
Butbrown? Buddha asked.
Brown with infinite variations, said the Lord God. Taupe, ochre, burnt umbertheyre called earth tones.
I wasnt criticizing, said Buddha. I was just noticing.
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