Chapter One: The Planet
Hello, my name is Shlomo. Want me to tell you a story I heard?
Yes? Well, here it is.
A long time ago there was – and still is – a planet that was almost
like our planet, but it was different. In the north polar region
the snow was blue and the ice was white. The polar bears were blue
to camouflage in the snow, and the seals were white to camouflage with
the ice when they went up through the holes.
In the north-west continent, there were evergreens that were red,
so from now on I will call them EVERREDS.
In the south-west continent, there were yellow palm trees and purple
sand.
In the north-east continent, there were ENORMOUS stones floating on
the water, that you could have walked on, and there is almost no space
that you could see the water. But in the spaces that you could see
the water, it is like a watering hole, and the animals there like to drink
from it.
In the south-east continent, there was pink sand and strange trees
of all sorts.
In the south polar region, there are ice caverns, and in them are
marks that look like strange images.
Around the planet’s equator, there was a tropical jungle. There
were very thick trees, so anything that was there would be in shadow.
Anywhere there was water, there was algae covering it.
There were no beasts of prey in the jungle, but there were plant-eating
animals. One of them was what I will call a “crabanana”, which is
a crab that lives by the water but also climbs up to the top of the trees,
and gets in the sun, and eats bananas. Also, there is something I
will call a “giraffaplese”. It is a thing that lives in the water
and has a neck and head like a giraffe, but a longer neck than a giraffe,
and a body like a plesiosaurus. It eats by stretching its neck high
into the trees to get into the sun and eat fruit, with the peel on, with
the peel off, ANYTHING, WHATEVER.
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