Other animals don’t require a whole cavalcade of concepts to warn them away from creatures that want to eat them
Intercepting the girl, the wolf engages, charms, inveigles
[...] the people who invented the story didn’t have modernity. They didn’t have ruffled caps or gingham aprons or a notion of quaintness to which these garments belonged. And they presumably did not have a concept of the wilderness, not the way we do. We think of the wilderness as bounded and finit…
There were old bodies and young bodies, men and women, their limbs tanned and lambent with perspiration.
I suppose I’d been hoping that Benek would hand me some final hermeneutic, or even offer a portal back to the faith, one paved by the certitude of modern science.
