^ “We design the wedding garb before we have the slightest experience of mating or suitors. We build the church because we have neither contact with nor experience of the divine.

We go to war before we recognize that we are fingers on the same hand, and most of what we call medicine is poison because we see only the effect we desire, and none of the prices incurred where we have chosen to be blind. Convenience is the darker shadow of our medicine.

We have photographed the fish before we arrive at the lake, and we are in love with the camera, not the light, the living water; the tense relationship between counting, recording, broadcasting and reality has removed 3/4ths of our vision before the mind was moved to action.”

— an anonymous informant