I said I was innocent. Well I was not. Innocent. My god the
names we use. What do we live with that's alive we haven't
tamed--people like me?--even our houseplants breathe by our
permission. All along I had the fear of what it
was--something ugly and poisonous, deadly and terrible--the
simple insect, worse and wilder than fire--and I should
rather put my arms in the heart of a flame than in the
darkness of a moist and webby hole. But the eye never
ceases to change. When I examine my collection now it isn't
any longer roaches I observe but gracious order, wholeness,
and divinity...