And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa. - Karen Blixen

It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

I had time after time watched the progression across the plain of the giraffe, in their queer, inimitable, vegetative gracefulness as if it were not a herd of animals but a family of rare, long stemmed spackled gigantic flowers slowly advancing. It was, in giant size, the border of a very old, infinitely precious Persian carpet in the dyes of green, yellow and black-brown

The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.