Excerpts From the Encyclopedia of Underwater Investigations

<p>Offshore a fisherman is tapping on lake ice </p><p>And calling to his son.</p><p>...</p><p>The fisherman lifting his nets whispers</p><p> A question to each pickerel each pike.</p><p><em>W. D. Valgardson A Drowning</em></p><p><br></p><p>There is a saying of the wise man: When all things lay in the midst of silence then leapt there down into me from on high from the royal throne a secret word.</p><p>...</p><p>But Sir where is the silence and where the place in which the word is spoken?</p><p><em>Meister Eckhart On Detachment</em></p><p><br></p><p>Gazarra opened the book.The first page swam with crooked twisted backwards-leaning letters.</p><p>'Darkness was on the face of the deep' he began.</p><p>I know she told him.I've been there.</p><p><em>David Homel Get On Top</em></p>