FUNGI

Since through experience of this great event
In Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc’t,
We may with more successful hope resolve
To wage by force or guile eternal Warr
Irreconcilable, to our grand Foe,
Who now triumphs, and in th’ excess of joy
Sole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav’n.

— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)

Something has left us. Despite our dominance of this planet, a kind of decline has been set in motion. Maybe, finally, we have stopped moving (…)