Chaos: To See a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Chaos is almost as old as time. An early creationmyth says, "Darkness was first, and from Dark-ness sprang Chaos. From the union between Darkness and Chaos sprang Night, Day, Erebus, and the air."1 As discussed by Bulfinch,2 "before earth and sea and heaven were created, all things wore one aspect, to which we give the name Chaos\p=m-\a confused and shapeless mass, nothing but dead weight, in which however, slumbered the seeds of things. " After this beginning we end up in our modern world with a new chaos engendered by new deities: HIFCA, DRG, HMO, IPA, and RVS. Mankind has "gressed " (a neol-ogism, derived from progressed and retrogressed, im-plying movement with the inability to interpret whether the direction has been forward or backward) from Olympian gods with proper names to our cur