The Hands
Unknown
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Description
Richard Sternbach's vignette, printed in Amazing Stories, tells the story of creation and destruction in a few hundred words. A gigantic figure sits atop a mountain, his beard a white flag in the wind, able to dam the river below with a finger. Across the plains fires glow, the mountain trembles from explosions a thousand miles away, and a muffled cry rolls down the hillside. A smaller figure appears beside him, sad and pleading.
Try again, father, the smaller one says. Give them another chance. Just once more. The old one shakes his head: it would be the same, they would do it again. Sternbach asks, in miniature, whether creation can bear its own failure. Readers get a brief, majestic fable about mercy, judgment, and a father's grief.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |