Looking down from high places puts things in perspective. Here we can see the nests built by humans, and the spaces between where they scuttle around, gathering food, hunting for something to wear.From up here, the cars look like ants and the people look like tiny mites, little parasites that sap the cars of their energy. The ants look like microscopic bacteria, impossible to see with the human eye. I wonder if the ants ever look up at us, at the tops of high buildings, and what simile they'd use to describe us. Maybe they're more literal - "look at that human up there, fellow ants," they might say, "they look just like what they are, and they appear to be smaller because they are far away". Maybe the world would make sense like that, but wouldn't it be boring.
"Look out!" cries the tiny ant, "A shoe as big as a house is about to..."
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