The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone.
When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!"
He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe.
At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed.
새뮤얼 랭혼 클레먼스(Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835년 11월 30일 ~ 1910년 4월 21일)는 마크 트웨인(Mark Twain)이라는 필명으로 더욱 유명한 미국의 소설가이다. 주요 작품으로는 미시시피 강 유역을 배경으로 개구쟁이 소년인 톰 소여와 허클베리 핀의 모험을 그린 동화 《톰소여의 모험》이 있다.