God created a beautiful story world and declared it to be very good, but in a twist of narrative narcissism, the characters rebelled against their Author and created a manuscript mess. The cartoon characters took hold of the Artist’s pen and tried to write their own script without any understanding of the grammar of divinity. Not surprisingly, the characters found the pen too heavy and the brush too unwieldy, and instead of painting a masterpiece, they succeeded in producing only a childish finger painting of their own vision of the world.

God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which necessarily been left to human actors and stage managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
—G. K. Chesterton