The entire population of the earth was compelled, on pain of death, to assist in this vast project.
First they built the base on which the huge new globe would rest - and the remains of that base, dear ladies, are what you now see before you.
Then they started to construct the globe itself, a gigantic sphere as big as the earth.
Once this sphere had been completed, it was furnished with perfect copies of everything on earth.
The sphere used up vast quantities of building materials, of course, and these could be taken only from the earth itself.
So the earth got smaller and smaller while the sphere got bigger and bigger.
By the time the new world was finished, every last little scrap of the old world had been carted away.
What was more, the whole of mankind had naturally been obliged to move to the new world because the old one was all used up.
When it dawned on Marxentius Communis that, despite all his efforts, everything was just as it had been,
he buried his head in his toga and tottered off. Where to, no one knows.
So you see, ladies, this craterlike depression in the ruins before you used to be the dividing line between the old world and the new.
In other words, you must picture everything upside down.”
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