@ba My thoughts exactly. Either part 2 is an origins story – I'm thinking something along the lines of Monsters University... fart school – or the fart roams the earth, lonely, searching for living nostrils to offend.
Maybe the first was highly localized, but the second took advantage of the authors significantly greater worldview. Also, the third should be in space.
@poorusher @vosechu @fecklessanimus My wife @kvetchie suggested that maybe a whole new group of people arose after the initial slaughteration. I thought maybe part 2 could be from the fart's perspective and involve repentance?
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