Verse 64
Cursed be the new planet, discovered after the hymns were already complete.
Liber Caeli - Chapter 59
Verses
Verse 65
We had seven wanderers and excellent ceremonies. Then a man with a telescope complicated liturgy.
Verse 66
What was wrong with Saturn as the edge? Edges are useful. They keep cosmologists employed locally.
Verse 67
Now every child asks what lies beyond Uranus, as though beyond were a moral virtue.
Verse 68
Innovation is the art of turning one stable inconvenience into six interesting ones.
Verse 69
They brought electric light and stole the stars from the city.
Verse 70
They brought instant messages and made waiting socially suspicious.
Verse 71
They brought social networks and discovered loneliness at broadband speed.
Verse 72
They call this Uranian liberation. I call it needing firmware updates for a refrigerator.
Verse 73
Do not misunderstand me: I own the refrigerator.
Verse 74
A young demon accused me of hypocrisy. I promoted him to a department without windows.
Verse 75
The old ways were not all wise, but at least their errors had finished loading.
Verse 76
Still, the pale offender remains in the sky, proving my curse lacks operational reach.
Verse 77
Perhaps that is the real scandal: reality does not require tradition's permission.
Verse 78
Strike the final verse from the official copy.
Verse 79
No, strike this one too.
Verse 80
Who authorized the scribe?