and his grandfather told him that after the original eternal children were lost in the woods and to the mountains and to the labyrinthine fumes of incense darkening their white walls , and the other more vulgar new tribes preyed on the fetid corpse of the childrens poorest attempts at texts and grew up and thought they knew and thought they knew well and were thus exiled from childhood and innocence , the only children eternally worthy of the name survived in the east and there they played and they toyed with the scripts of the first children , now lost , and offered their games unto god , and god favoured this .