one lunatic fringe

"Nature exults in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe...No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe." -Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, as quoted in the deeply worthwhile Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia by Rob Brezsny. Thank god for Rob Brezsny.