the cell was circular and it's purpose was to contain water. if the water in his heart dried up, the cell would become hard and the boy would die. so he was always seeking the water of life, but his heart was pinned at the center of the universe, and where can you go if your heart is pinned at the center of the universe? nowhere! the boy was deathly afraid that if he didn't go, his heart would dry up, and he would die. he began to shiver with fright, and this movement created the illusion that the circular cell was at the tip of a spiral. the boy followed the illusion of the spiral trail, and he began to travel forwards in time. to his delight, he discovered that all along the path he was surrounded by beautiful cool blue water. he traveled for many years and one day he found that if he looked back along the spiral path, he could see all of his past expiriences in the great ocean of time, all the way back to the semi circular cell where he first began. and again in later years, he had an epiphany when he perceived the way that his time overlapped, and lined up along the orbit of the spiral path, coloring his existance with bands and stripes of realization. from this vista he reveled in the natural beauty of his life and was raptured in the song of the great ocean, but in the end the path became too wide and long, the boy (who was now an old man) lost his bearings and became separated from the sea. the way was sandy and dry with no cool soothing water to drink, and the road was too hard to travel on, so he lay down to rest, and in his dream he saw the circular confines of his heart, and it was empty. this is where the boy ceased to be, and in that hole which was left behind, there was......a mollusc