In the
gardens, people stumble over clumps of hardened
goo and marvel at what looks like a storm - ravaged fallen tree trunk, but turns out to be pair of giant legs and a headless torso.
Sitting in his chambers the day before the sentencing, he thought of a study of butterflies, which he'd come across in a magazine a few days before, during an afternoon working in the
garden: even after the chrysalis and even after having melted down into
goo during their transformation from caterpillars, butterflies showed evidence of remembering their life on the ground.