Status Updates From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Fish gotta swim and bird gotta fly; insects, it seems, gotta do one horrible thing after another.”

“ I allow the spiders the run of the house. I figure that any predator that hopes to make a living on whatever smaller creatures might blunder into a four-inch square bit of space in the corner of the bathroom, where the tub meets the floor, needs every bit of my support.”

Gone the night i ate at the bittersweet fruit, put two and two together, and puckered forever my brain

Only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is