[M.D. Holloway]

Couldn't find much but did find the following:

Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, said: "I often think that when the sun goes down, the world is hidden by a big blanket from the light of heaven, but the stars are little holes pierced in that blanket by those who have done good deeds in this world. The stars are not all the same size; some are big, some are little, and some men have done small deeds, but they have made their hole in the blanket by doing good before they went to heaven. Try and make your hole in the blanket by good work while you are on earth. It is something to be good, but it is far better to do good." Think of Baden-Powell's words when you promise to help other people.

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The first theory is that the sky is a blanket with holes in it. When God goes to sleep across the world, he slowly pulls up his blanket, exposing some of the holes. His Great Legs would hang in the East across the oceans, and He would pull the blanket up over his knees and body and eventually cover Himself up in the West, which was at a beach somewhere to make a nice pillow for his head. So the holes in the blanket are the stars. This is fine, but there’s a problem. It appears that there are fewer holes in the blanket that covers cities than the blanket over deserts. This is because the roads and concrete in cities reflect light back upwards, blocking out most of it coming to our eyes. God is transparent; light passes through him when He sleeps. Then there is the final problem of the moon. The moon is God’s mouth, He breathes through this hole. He sleeps with his mouth open. Sometimes his mouth is closed. Sometimes it can be partially open. His mouth is the only part of God than emits light, and the only visible part. The clouds are present when God covers up. He often dons bits of pyjamas in bed. A lot of the time He sleeps naked, so we see no clouds. Shooting “stars” are the occasional bed bug or glow-worm travelling on the blanket. The very large shooting stars are tiny insects mending a hole.

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