now , there was very little traffic in the streets save for those carts whose flatbeds were stacked to unsteady , shivering heights with squirming patients , rotting corpses , antiques , clothing , home furnishings , and burlap bags with unknown contents : all of these piled high and in no discriminating order , piled with no favor for one arrangement of molecules over the next ( although these collections of macromolecules shifted and collided frequently in the inertia of transport ) , giving inception to , by way of this seemingly random method of organization , a new ( however premature ) balance by which lasting and final parity could be shared among all transported objects : animate , inanimate , and disanimate alike .