Just call me Touche Turtle. I am always on guard, or as they say in these here parts, aye ready. The wits you see are part of the wild for they allow you to 'operate' the wilderness and yourself within it. The problem with today's superimposed humans removed from the wild is that their wits have also been removed to machines and devices that purport to witness for them. And so, modern man has become a prisoner of and a slave to his machines, and his wits have suffered terribly as a consequence. Not so for the animal who inhabits not delusion and the car park but full-blown Nature, wild and uncontaminated. This animal witnesses everything that needs to be witnessed, that is, the essential. And through this witnessing, the wits and the spirit are galvanized and strengthened. So that today, when I tried to explain to a young man up in the hills that really his two dogs should be on leashes in order to protect the ground-nesting birds and respect the wild, and he said, 'Ah'll fuckin' dae whit ah want, I am the wild,' I replied without even thinking, 'How you can be wild when you've got two barbie dolls with you?' And that was that.
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