S&D

(d) from the sonar depths came the hum, the pre-mamilian amphibian tremor rising as from a vessal of death, still-life though without breath, casketed in the liquid womb the natal tomb and emerging, drowned in its first gasp a futile grasp for some semblance of truth, a gossamer mask. all that glitters is fallible, (s) except those things labeled "precedent," "sacrosanct," "sacerdotal," which were with us at the beginning of the world before the amphibians, before the asparagus, before the glitter of the semblance of intellect which are all necessarily fallible in this natal universe.