"Urizen separated out a region from the rest of eternity, shrank it into solid matter, weighed it in his scales, measured it with his rods and plumblines, circumscribed it with his compasses, and wrote laws for it in his great brass-bound books.
This sorry region, the region over which Urizen rules, is the universe in which we live..."
The children are kidnapped, then meet a visionary in a field of
skylarks, and hear a new story about the creation of the world. They
are pursued by baddies in black cars, who seem to be after the box - all in the latest installment of Edward Picot's 'The Puzzle Box'.
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