All The Dark We Will Not See - Excerpt 1

SAY TO YOURSELF, I AM GOD.

That’s right. Imagine it.

Now, do some tricks, try out Your powers.

Hide in a far Nothing at the edge of light. Drift near Far Tortuga in a leaky turtle boat. Melt an icecap, craft a crop circle, have sex with a virus.

Now, go to the city of Washington and read a few minds. Pick up a copy of the Washington Post. Hang out with a drug or weapons lobbyist at a local bar. Try to reconcile the biases, irrationalities, and politics You encounter into something that makes sense for the good of all.

In other words, try to un-Babel this city...

You cannot.

It is impossible, even for You. Being all-powerful, You have “created” a place even You will never sort out.

Short of an alien invasion or flaming snakes from the sky (at least twice a week), two worlds will always prevail in Washington and trump all Godlike efforts: the World of Idols and the World of Ideals.