Genesis Revisited

Chapter One.

1: Now the Great Mouse said to Rookie Mouse, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the apartment that I will show you.

2: And I will make of you a great Mouse, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

3: I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the Mice of the earth shall bless themselves."

4: So Rookie Mouse went, as the Great Mouse had told him. Rookie Mouse was seventy-five weeks old when he departed from mouseland.

5: And Rookie Mouse took Lola his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had gotten in Mouseland; and they set forth to go to the land of M. Street. When they had come to the land of Brooklyn,

6: Rookie Mouse passed through the land to the place at Prospect Park, to the oak of Petting Zoo. At that time the Brooklynites were in the land.

7: Then the Mighty Mouse appeared to Rookie Mouse, and said, "To your descendants I will give this Park." So he built there the Brooklyn Public Library to the Great Mouse, who had appeared to him.

8: Thence he removed to the mountain on the east of Grand Army Plaza, and pitched his tent, with Plaza on the west and Prospect on the east; and there he built an altar to the Mighty Mouse and called on the name of the Great Mouse.

9: And Rookie Mouse journeyed on, still going toward M. Street.

10: Now there was a famine in the land. So Rookie Mouse went down to Subway Station to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

11: When he was about to enter Subway Station, he said to Lola his wife, "I know that you are a Mousette beautiful to behold;

12: and when the humans see you, they will say, `This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

13: Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account."

14: When Rookie Mouse entered Subway Station the Humans saw that the Mousette was very dodgy.

15: And when the princes of Rat Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Rat Pharaoh. And the Mousette was taken into Rat Pharaoh's house.

16: And for her sake he dealt well with Rookie Mouse; and he had cheese, bread crumbs, menservants, maidservants, and camels.

17: But the Great Mouse afflicted Rat-Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Lola, Rookie's wife.

18: So Rat-Pharaoh called Rookie, and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

19: Why did you say, `She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her,and some cheese, and be gone."

20: And Rat-Pharaoh gave rats orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.

Chapter Two.

1: So Rookie Mouse went up from Subway Station, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into K. Avenue.

2: Now Rookie Mouse was very rich in cheese and bread crumbs.

3: And he journeyed on from the K. Avenue as far as R. Parkway, to the place where his mouse-hole had been at the beginning,

4: to the place where he had made an altar at the first; and there Rookie called on the name of the Great Mouse.

5: And Lot, who went with Rookie Mouse, also had cheese and bread crumbs,

6: so that the Parkway could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,

7:and there was strife between Rookie Mouse and Lot. At that time the Williamsburghers and Park Slopers dwelt in the land.

8: Then Rookie said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, for we are kinsmen.

9: Is not the whole Brooklyn before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left."

10: And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw that Grand Army Plaza valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Great Mouse, like the land of Subway Station.

11: So Lot chose for himself all Grand Army Plaza, and Lot journeyed east; thus they separated from each other.

12: Rookie dwelt in the apartment on M. Street, while Lot dwelt among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

13: The Great Mouse said to Rookie after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

14: for all the apartment which you see I will give to you and to your descendants for ever.

15: I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.

16: Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the apartment, for I will give it to you."

17: So Rookie moved his mouse-hole, and came and dwelt by the extra bed in my apartment , which is at M. Street; and there he built an altar to the Great Mouse, and there my Landlord set a mouse trap and that was the end of Rookie Mouse..