The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX He took a final survey and again faintly murmured: “Very good! Beautifully arranged, too!” He added, “not a hole anywhere!” It somewhat surprised Him, therefore, when a tiny, tiny silvery little laugh came bell-like in His ear. It was so tiny that he could hardly credit the audacity of the idea, but for all its music, the laugh certainly sounded as if some one were mocking Him. He turned sharply round (and this was one of His own special attributes, as transcending the plane where activity and rotundity are incompatibles) but saw nothing; and putting His legs up, lighted His long pipe and settled down to a quiet perusal of a fascinating ‘cosmic romance” called Berashith by two pseudonymous authors, G. O. Varr and L. O.Heem— of ingenious fancy, exalted imaginative faculty, and a tendency, which would later be deemed undesirable, to slop over into the filthiest details whenever the love-interest became dominant. Oh, but it was a most enthralling narrative! Beginning with a comic account of the creation, possibly intended as a satire on our men of science or our men of religion—'twould serve equally well in either case—it went on to a thrilling hospital scene. The love-interest comes in chapter ii.; chapter iii. has an eviction scene, since when there have been no snakes in Ireland ; chapter iv. gives us a first-rate murder, and from that moment the authors never look back. But the Great White Spirit was destined to have his day of repose disturbed. He had just got to the real masterpiece of literature “ And Adam knew Hevah his woman,” which contains all that ever has been said or ever can be said upon the sex-problem in its 202