" Here is what Laika saw when she gazed from her craft: a sea reclaiming the land as its own, twisting, extending, contorting, unfolding itself in the attempt, taking the vast processes of its currents and chemicals and waves and tides and condensing them down to form life, a handy tool in the struggle, teeming unicell agents that could be relied on to fan out and infiltrate, multiply and report, chuckle and swarm. And even, unexpectedly, band together, form groups, organisms: plankton and algae, anemone and arthropod, lobopod and snail. Then, later, fungus and plant, grass and gymnosperm, lizard and fly, flower and wasp, mammal and tree: muliticellular creatures that carried the offensive further and further inland -- interzone I think I've found you -- across mountains and deserts, tundra and bog, until they were able to dance rituals in border towns, able to order themselves, to calm themselves, able to prepare for the conquest of space."
Habitus, James Flint.
Habitus, James Flint.
