Ratty Humanity

Are we like rats, who must scrounge and scavenge desperately to push death away, death that must come to us all? Oh, hug the wall when you scramble from one pathetic place to another, you musn't let a cat see you or a clumsy human step on you. And always, always, caution. Take risks if you must, but only so that you can secure gruel for another day. Be careful! One must not die!

And always that failure (that inability) in the rodent nature to appreciate life. No, to rest in the glory of beauty is not for the rodent nature. It is for the godly nature, to look at Creation and say, this is good. It is good, and it is lovely, it is ugly and it is painful, and for all of Nature's cruelty she is still your lover.

The human creature, at once rodent and regal. I think I like that hilarious irony, that human beings might actually go extinct before rats do.