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The Dream of the Ants
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude
rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music
that will melt the stars.
-Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary (1857)
Popular theology... is a massive inconsistency derived from
ignorance.... The gods exist because nature herself has
imprinted a conception of them on the minds of men.
-Cicero
De Natura Deorum, I, 16
Ellie was in the midst of packing notes, magnetic tapes, and
a palm frond for shipm |
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