Status Updates From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

this is, actually, all that matters

Either kind of profound descriptions of weather or overlong descriptions of bugs. No middle ground.

“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