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Steinbeck And Frogs
John Steinbeck said of Ed Ricketts whose personality
drew John Cage, Henry Miller, and others
that Rickets had a mind without horizon
and sympathy without warp.
But the frogs and snakes
kidnapped from tidal pools
do not agree.
Sooner or later, when one spends a lifetime without
apology .. in harming countless beings.. God stops the
action.
Rickets died as a cowcatcher on a train.. grabbed his
truck on the tracks.
The vedas say that death by the elements, animals or
plants is inauspicious.
This includes lightning bolts, drowning, trees falling,
tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, bulls goring rodeomen,
elephants trampling cruel trainers.
