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questions he asks. He asks me how a dog could have a soul. How come fate and coincidence are
the only options. Why a thief would rob himself. When the universe ends, is it actually beginning.

While Jamal is making phone calls, Derek and I are discussing the dreams I have had, except he
doesn't realize that they are dreams. He thinks they are short stories attached with some kind of
message.

Three days go by and they are both still here. Derek has taking a liking to my "short stories," and
Jamal is constantly on the phone. Last night the people on the news say there was another murder
around my area and once again it was filed under "D" for drugs. People killing people. Sometimes
I wonder if man discovered murder or invented it.

Now I'm on the bus taking a trip to visit Kathleen, Joe's mom, because it's Wednesday. On the bus
I remember a dream I had three years ago. I'm in an airplane, and the only other passenger is a man
sitting to the left of me. He begins to tell me about the evolution of man, how the creature first
learned how to communicate with its own kind and other kinds around it. He tells me how all
forms of language is simply the outward projection of the mind.

The questions someone asks, the way they react to a certain event, these are who they are or who
they want to be. He starts to tell me that man created a part of the brain that deals with everything
that is exterior to the body it belongs to, and a part of the brain that deals with everything that is
interior to the body it belongs to. He tells me that these functions were birthed from the need to
survive.

Now the man is telling me that he once knew God, but that they had been separated long ago
because they disagreed. He tells me that they were working on a project. They were nearing
completion when they came to the last aspect of the project, whether all the lifeforms in all
possible places would have a free will or not.

He tells me that God believed that they should have a free will, but that he himself believed that
they should not. That if these lifeforms had a free will, they would eventually destroy the entire
project itself.

He says he tried to remind God that even the beings who created him and God had stated that
giving him and God and all the others of our kind a free will was a mistake. Apparently the mistake
was going to happen again, and maybe again sometime down the road.

So this man says he and God argued, disagreed, and then they were separated, God being sent to
one place, and the man being sent to another place, and it was decided that God would finish the
project alone. The man was angry when he saw that God had decided to grant the lifeforms a
privilege of free will.

Several days later, the man swears to God that he will make the lifeforms murder, steal and deceive
one another to show God that giving them a free will was a mistake. The man says he kept his
promise for years, and eventually the sins grew to a degree that he no longer had to continue to
prove his point. The lifeforms became so sinful that they teach their offspring the ways of sin, and