at one moment , he was a naked and solitary particle , spinning about an unknown axis , traversing unknowable trajectories ; and in the next , he was something larger and more complexhe was something which could only know itself by virtue of its interactions with other such particlesfor the bonds that formed themselves , innumerably , fixed him into the structure of what seemed a stable and ordered macromolecule , an institution which deemed itself , in its physical entirety , an autonomous and self-governed entity ( of course this was an untenable claim on the part of this chemical behemoth , for in its arrogance , it neglects to appease the minority groups within its constituency , which cry impassioned cries for their own liberation and self-rule , until through some undermining feat of enzymic interventionism , the molecular colossus is overwhelmed on all fronts and made forcibly to yield to the deafening calls for partition , thusly , redistricting itself into a newer and more stable commonwealth of independent molecules ) ; in the moment that followed , he found himself substrate to an enzyme and then , accordingly , he became the enzyme itself , yet this enzyme , too , worked in coordination with something , once again , much larger and more complex than itself to produce a series of functions , the purposes of which were beyond its own capabilities to recognize , but were , nonetheless , the underpinnings of a peculiar process known as digestion ; this process was intricate and the machinery required to facilitate it , equally so , and it was thus that he soon began to fold inward upon himself to endless degrees to take on the form of what was called a digestive system ; he , then , expanded further , for this system , too , was part of a larger whole , a form comprised of many other systems of varying function ( electrical impulses shot through him , his frame hardened and covered itself with flexible tissue for the sake of motile function , viscous fluids coursed for the purposes of transporting substances through a branching series of channels and byways , connected to a powerful chambered pump ) .