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Excerpt from Blessed Saint Certainty: A Story
And yet through the slumber of the forest, too deep to be awakened by the winds, there ¿ickered, like fool ish dreams, the finer life of birds and squirrels, a life ¿avored with wickedness in the innumerable snakes, with a relish even of merriment in scolding catbirds and shrill lizards, to say nothing of the conscious hypocrisy of raccoon and opossum slinking by, and of the chancellor-like gravity of owls enshrined as with spectacles and wig in the judicial seclusion of hollow trees. It was only upon the edge of the woods near the village that life emerged into self - consciousness in the children chattering together, laughing, fighting, swimming in the river, climbing the trees, swinging upon the vines, dashing about on colts whose manes and tails were tangled with cockle-burs.
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