The chilidium is not often visible in the dorsal valve of Billingsella but when seen proves to be an arch with its piers built against the notothyrial edge.

A lifeless lump, unfashioned, and unframed, / Of jarring seeds

We must ask, first, whether our privacy — call it our distance or enclosedness or unknowability with respect to others — is elected or inevitable.

Why in ten thousand years scarce will the rain and storms lessen a mountain top by a span in thickness?