Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal… In truth, man is incurably foolish....

…my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow…

I’m scared of the geese. When I was five, my mom took me down there to feed those horrible beasts and one of them nearly took my hand off.

Oh, listen. Listen!’ A sound like a big crowd a good way off, excited and shouting, getting closer. We stand up and scan the empty sky. Suddenly there they are (the geese), a wavering V...