Excerpt from DINKLE'S LIFE: A SPIRITUAL BIOGRAPHY

This post is a response to a Facebook post of a quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson about worms. Tyson's quote is:

 

The excerpt from DINKLE'S LIFE is:

 

“Wonderful animals!” had said LPD. “Poke ‘em in the ear and they’ll knot up like a ball! Leave ‘em alone for a few minutes, they’ll come out of it and you can poke ‘em again, and they’ll knot up in a ball again!” Dinkle had laughed at the worms’ miseries until his eyes watered with tears. “If you’re a worm, Jimmy, then a fat kid with a stick is a disaster, a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, terminal schizophrenia; The Flood; Book of Revelation come to life!” He’d laughed, coughed, dragged on his cigarette, shaking with the memories. “Named one of ‘em Herman. Listen to this!” Then he had recited his ode to a flatworm:

Herman, Herman, have a fit

You’re nothing more than a dumb little shit

Don’t trust Lonnie Paul you’ll never learn

That’s why you’ll always be a worm

“Herman was wallowing in fear, of course,” Dinkle had said, suddenly serious; “he was too stupid to realize I wasn’t a catastrophe. He believed I was a force too powerful for him to deal with.” He’d sucked heavily on the cigarette, then filled the room with second hand smoke that responded only slightly to the heavy black air outside the open window. “Even the worms got things to say to you, Jimmy; even the worms.” Then he’d gotten all maudlin and sulky, until Jimmy’d asked for more, and he’d perked up, telling about his dog Gismo, and how stupid he appeared to be, unless you’d learned to talk to dogs. At the time, Jimmy had wondered whether learning to talk to dogs was a prelude to learning to talk to raccoons.

DINKLE'S LIFE is available on kindle, nook, and from smashwords.com As for other books involving higher powers, see also CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN GOD AND SATAN, on kindle, nook, smashwords, and createspace, and CHRISTIAN ZOMBIE, also on kindle, nook, and smashwords.