What indeed, is every—the commonest phenomenon but a wonder and a mystery;—every flower a riddle; every blade of grass an open secret; every mite that glistens in the sunbeam a point from which the universe opens outward? This world is no less a mystery and a wonder-world than the world beyond, and were it not for our close familiarity with it, by which our sense is blunted we should at once perceive it to be no less so.

My criteria for interviewing people are that they were 'in the room' during the big events, that they know where the bodies are buried and that they are prepared to talk with a degree of candour, he says.

These fluctuations result from the interaction between the supply of hides and skins and the demand for the leather that is tanned from the rawstock.

The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation.