IV + 

“Is this all?” asked the Lord God. + 

The angel at the book⁠—it was one of countless volumes, like the British Museum Reading-room Catalogue, glanced at us and seemed to count us in the instant. + 

“That’s all,” he said, and added: “It was, O God, a very little planet.” + 

The eyes of God surveyed us. + 

“Let us begin,” said the Lord God. + 