46. In the beginning, Tohu Bohu was everywhere. Then there was darkness and light. A man was lying alongside a stream in a garden, complaining of a pain in his side. A woman was talking to a snake. They were completely naked and the weather was beautiful. They had some fruit and they saw that it was good. Who wouldn't? Boring without the fruit. They felt guilty, so they put on some clothes. Someone looked back, and turned into a pillar of salt. God was disappointed, so he flooded the earth. Noah, an eccentric but forward-thinking man, had built a boat. He and his wife had stashed the contents of a zoo onboard, so they were set to go. Little did he know then that his seed would people the Earth and that among his descendants would be Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Nietzsche, Nixon, even you, I suppose. From the story of his voyage, we have derived such sayings as "save it for a rainy day," and "whatever floats your boat." But we digress. The point is the long journey, you see, and the necessity of Coca-Cola. Forty years, those people wandered the desert. Can you imagine that, forty years without having an ice-cold Coke to quench your thirst? Well, on the seventh day, God created Coca-Cola.

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