The Future

OneCorn/Martha again posts to the forum, expressing her thoughts on saving Lot, “the last good man” (103), from Sodom. She also elaborates on Lot’s mistakes: He offered his daughters up to the mob. Despite that act, God struck the mob blind and helped Lot, his wife, and his daughters escape from Sodom. OneCorn gives the unnamed women names: Edo, Moa, and Amma. In her telling, Lot’s wife, Edo, cannot keep herself from looking back at the city; she feels abandoned by Lot after he offered up their daughters.

OneCorn elaborates on what she sees as the underlying theme of Genesis. It is a book about warring brothers, from Cain and Abel to Lot and Abraham. She notes that, in each of the pairings, a farmer is pitted against a hunter-gatherer. She stands firmly on the side of the hunter-gatherers and wanderers, like Abraham. She implores her followers not to trust the cities.

Martha reflects on her time with Zhen. She believes that her ability to take a risk in getting to know Zhen was made possible by her experience with ArturoMegadog. At the time of their encounter, Martha had been working too much, comforted only by her guinea pigs.