Emblem

Oh you.......

"As [the stream] flows, it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the lacinated lobed and imbricated thalluses of same lichens; or you are reminded of coral, of leopard's paws or bird's feet, of brains or lungs or bowels, and excrement of all kinds. It is a truly grotesque vegatations, whose forms and color we see imitated in bronze, a sort of architectural foliage…In the silicious matter which the water deposits is perhaps the bony system, and in the still finer soil and organic matter the fleshy fiber of cellular tissue. What is man but a mass of thawing clay?…You may melt your…

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