: in the end the birds , as a unified effort of thousands upon thousands of ever retreating and keeping-out-of-angel-sight birds managed to spin and stringfrom planet to moona web large enough to entice , hold , and in the frantic end subdue , the host , angel , god in these parts ; but not before he , in rage and struggle to free himself of its constantly strengthening strands , crushed and shattered planet upon planet , sun after sunspilling liquid death in all directions and robbing trillions upon trillions of living things of form and home ; wreaking such brilliant havoc that the elder birds feared they had been wrong to try to capture him , and fearful now that they had brought about their own destruction , and perhaps that of the entire universe , in this attempt at angely capture .