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Eli: "Once upon a time, when all of civilization was a single galaxy and a single star: and a single planet, a place called Earth."
- Nice ; - )
Notice the strong influence of transhumanism: Your grandchildren are being told of the timeless old legend of "The One Planet That Caused Us". This implies that either you or your children have lived long enough for (trans)humans to spread out across galaxies.
I found that part incredibly uplifting.
The mode of expression in parables doesn't always bother with such precision and may consider "children's children" a perfectly valid way to denote "future relatives at the end of a line of descent of unknown, but possibly really very long length", because the former reads much snappier in a parable.
Good point. Still just as uplifting, but maybe not as strictly transhumanist as I thought.