Alan Moore quote update

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I think that the Alan Moore quote I'm looking for may come from his "Snakes and Ladders," which is out of print and bloody expensive. Does anyone have a copy handy and feel able to look up a quote for me? Basically, the passage I'm looking for says that the universe wants intelligent life so that it can be appreciated / loved (or words to that effect.

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I think that this is the bit you mean:

We are insensate molecules, assembled from the accidental code engraved upon our genes.

Mud that sat up.

Chemicals mingle in our sediment and in their interactions and combustions
we suppose we feel, suppose we love.

We reproduce mathematically predictable as spores within a Petri dish.

We function briefly, then subside once more to the unknowing silt.

We are a blind contingency, an unimportant restlessness of dirt and yet Rosetti paints his dead Elizabeth, head tilted back on her impossibly slim throat, eyes closed against the golden light surrounding her.

Clay looks on clay and understands that it is beautiful.

Through us, matter stares slack-jawed at it's own star dusted countenance and knows, incredulously that it knows.

And knows that it is universe.

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If that's not what you're after I've got a copy of the CD so you can download it from my dropbox and listen to it yourself. Actually you should do that anyway because Alan Moore could read a phone book and make it sound full of cosmic meaning.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6121404/01%20The%20Gate%20of%20Tears.wma
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6121404/02%20Stars%20and%20Garters.wma
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6121404/03%20Baghdad.wma
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6121404/04%20Art.wma
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6121404/05%20Syon.wma

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I think that's exactly the bit I want - many thanks!