In such wise that all the beasts, great and small, came to the court save Reynard the Fox.

Whatever letters and papers you keep , docket and tie them up in their respective classes , so that you may instantly have recourse to any one

But I like the honesty of literary critic Stephanie LeMenager, who concludes that we love oil petromodernity – and the world it brings us – theater, movies, books, plastics, air conditioning, central heat, air travel.

After all, a pill bug normally spends the sunlit hours when diurnal birds are about coiled away like a petite armadillo, often beneath some unpeckable tree stump or stone.