Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [2255]

A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. And others fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bore fruit an hundredfold. — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 2255

Note

Formulation: the chapter withholds commentary and lets the King James parable stand as its own ending. Read against Acorn and the oak trees just planted, the four kinds of ground become a taxonomy of everything the group has already survived — the trodden path, the rock, the thorns — with the hundredfold yield left as an unclaimed promise the book does not yet confirm.