A tour guide directed us to the highlights. The  earth’s core comprises billions of unconceived fetuses, the arc of their unwanted lives accruing in the minds of spontaneous, unprepared lovers. Their anxieties and imaginations crafted entire lives and machinations of these infinite offspring, miraculously not conceived and therefore never aborted.

The unconceived fetuses , ironically bound together by the material of scatter, shared space in the core with human consciousness.