the_unexpected_universe ovenbird From The Unexpected Universe by Loren Eiseley: "I had once fitted a seared and broken skullcap over a dead man's brains, and I had thought, peering into the scorched and mangled skull vault, it is like a beautiful, irreparably broken machine, like something consciously made to be used, and now, where are the voices and the music?" 250406 ... ovenbird page 32 "Crude and imperfect, magic is still man's first conscious abstraction from nature, his first attempt to link disparate objects by some unseen attraction between them." 250406 what's it to you? who go blather from