His research group was studying how the beetles used the polarized light patterns of the moon to
stay on their
paths, when one moonless night they made a surprising observation — the beetles maintained
straight trajectories.
«Narrative is a difficult art; narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands, its course changed by every bowlder it comes across and by every grass - clad gravelly spur that projects into its
path; its surface broken, but its course not
stayed by rocks and gravel
on the bottom in the shoal places; a brook that never goes
straight for a minute, but goes, and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe three - quarters of a mile around, and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the
path it traversed an hour before; but always going, and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law.