Flat like a pancake. Like an American pancake, mind you. With all sorts of fruit and chocolate chips, soaked in maple syrup and with some whipped cream here and there. There is nothing better in the world: it is the world. 
So we're all wondering around the flat face of the Earth.. and if we get too close to the edge we might just fall off. Anyone can fall off, any time. It's easy because the pancake gets flipped over often in the cooking process, and you are just flipped way way far away to small mountain villages - where people share one room stone houses with their guinea pigs - and it feels like the middle ages. Or to high tech cities in the desert where everything is plastic and smells like money, and no one knows what is real. But it's not only the flipping that throws people off. If you walk too close to the edge you may just slip. It's very slippery near the edge. And the curious thing about slipping is that no one knows where you slip to. Sometimes you slip off and hold on, and you can climb back on. But climbing back is, of course, a lot more difficult than falling off. Maybe the Earth is not only flat, it's also tilted, so people slip off without noticing.

So we're all wondering around the flat face of the Earth.. and if we get too close to the edge we might just fall off. Anyone can fall off, any time. It's easy because the pancake gets flipped over often in the cooking process, and you are just flipped way way far away to small mountain villages - where people share one room stone houses with their guinea pigs - and it feels like the middle ages. Or to high tech cities in the desert where everything is plastic and smells like money, and no one knows what is real. But it's not only the flipping that throws people off. If you walk too close to the edge you may just slip. It's very slippery near the edge. And the curious thing about slipping is that no one knows where you slip to. Sometimes you slip off and hold on, and you can climb back on. But climbing back is, of course, a lot more difficult than falling off. Maybe the Earth is not only flat, it's also tilted, so people slip off without noticing.
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