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Q: Why do many members of ASCAR identify themselves only by number? A: Why not? As are all names, all numbers are inventions and therefore fictitious.
Q: May anyone join ASCAR? A: Only those who can may become members.
Q: Is ASCAR a secret and/or subversive organization? A: No. It is a formless association of naturalists in several senses of that word. By report, it was the Snake in the Garden who first hissed, "Let us organize this thing."
Q: I am very intersted in the habits of crows and ravens. But when reading the Corvi Chronicle I sometimes find disturbing commentaries and conceits about political, cultural and metaphysical matters which have nothing to with these corvids or even natural history. Why is this? A: You are disturbed because of what Owen Barfield has characterized as "bad mental habits." As to the eclectic content of the Chronicle: All history is natural. Compartmentalizing it may be convenient but is always arbitrary since there is and always has been only one story. Properly presented, it must begin: "First there was The Light and then The Word." Throughout the world, from the most ancient of times, we have closely associated crows and ravens with these initial events. Thus to reflect intelligently on, say, Gangsta Rap, Newt Gingrich or ghosts, one is also obliged to reflect intelligently on the winter roosts and other habits of crows and ravens. The pages of the Chronicle relfect the reality that there is nos such thing as unnatural history.
Q: I have learned that the motto of ASCAR is "Noli Soli Sumus." What does this mean? A: Asking this question indicates that any answer will be meaningless. Corvi # 67 |
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