Skunks and Whales

My office building has been the recent target of a particularly nasty skunk, so I have been temporarily officing out of the university library.

As I was walking through the stacks, I noticed this section and thought of this group, particularly @jason.

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“Hark ye yet again—the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!”