I have been prevented from reaching my objective before by lack of stamina in my companions, and have often regreted that it is not within my power to do it alone (4)
amen
the objective is History not Discourse, is Nature not Culture. The process is one of displacement; from rock to evidence and animal to specimen. The last creature is stuffed withthe straw of our desire. It is fixed, orered, classified and closed to meaning.

My first natural History was a jar of baby sharks which I handed to my primary school teacher. He stuck a label on the jar, wrote my name on it, then he placed the sharks on top of the old cupboard, next to the feather-dusters he used for suppressing the militant tendency