Sumptuous Planet (A Secular Mass): XI. Substance. Giant Megalopolis

“The Krebs cycle, the 9-toothed cogwheel that is largely responsible for making energy available to us, turns over at up to 100 revolutions per second, duplicated thousands of times in every cell. Chemical cogwheels of this particular marque are housed inside mitochondria, tiny bodies that reproduce independently inside our cells like bacteria ...Mitochondria ... are directly descended from ancestral bacteria who, a billion years ago, gave up their freedom. You are a giant megalopolis of bacteria.”

Et homo factus est