The fire is the ultimate sound when you're listening to a good snow falling outside and it's the only sound besides the sound of your own breathing. There used to be a small hill for the sounds that things made that were really the sounds of something that was the exact opposite in almost every way. The mountain grew and grew, because at first it wasn't that common for anyone to recognize the fact that there are relationships in noise and different sounds. It grew and grew over the centuries, spreading out in all directions, changing the landscape as well as the surface of the ground around it. As mankind grew and advanced in technology, the sounds became more and more frequent, therefore, the mountain grew and spread out grew and spread out grew and spread out. Children got wise to the mountain and began adding to the equation, only causing another phenomenon: parts of the mountain began to erode into huge gorges. Over the years, these gorges became valleys and the valleys held rain which became, in turn, rivers and lakes.

At the distance, the mountain always looked pretty large, but it wasn't overpowering looking, that is, until after the turn of the 20th century. Then the mountain began to grow at an unbelievable rate of speed. Before long, and by the end of the 20th century, the mountain had surpassed the cloud level, and clouds floated around it like vultures fly around a soon to be carcass in the desert. The rivers were powerful watersystems that provided cities with power and flowed into lakes that looked more like seas to the people around them. This mountain became the very beast that men now wanted to conquer in order to claim that they were successful.

Conquering did not mean climbing the mountain, it meant out doing the mountain. You see, for many centuries, man just understood the mountain's massiveness, but couldn't actually see it grow. But in the 20th century, men could actually watch it and if they looked at it with just the right amount of blurriness in their eyes, they could actually see it spread out and grow spread out and grow spread out and grow. But that's just one aspect of having to out do the mountain. Growing so rapidly that the mountain would fear THEM instead of the other way around. The other way to beat the mountain would be to be able to have a better system of flowing than the mountain's elaborate and huge water system. That means more ways for the flow to come to the central body, more things flowing within the currents of the flow, more life spawning on the perimeter of the flow because of the life giving power of the flow. Men also wanted to be able to out do the fact that the mountains were boasting of their massive reveenes and valleys. Everyone wanted to make sure they were richly well rounded by including this aspect in their life - even though the majority of all people try to hide the gorges and valleys of their life. They try not to show the real side of the mountain because too much of the gorges show and valleys reveal things about the inner person that they want to restrain showing people for as long as humanly possible. And the ability to do this becomes a gauge to measure how worthy someone might be as a lover.