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"I have since decided to donate this piece to the Robin Sullins art auction, which begins on the 14th February. Robin’s fingers and legs required amputation after her body reacted violently following a dog bite, and she is presently spending her days in hospital. The auction was set up by her sister, Angi Sullins of Duirwaigh Studios. Please visit Robin’s Relief Fund to find out more and to donate, and spread the word, if you can; or bid on one of the artworks (there are works by many others) when the auction goes live."

Syrischer Maler um (1310), Kalîla and Dimma Book of Kalîlah and Dimnah, or, The Fables of Bidpai  The Story of the Owls and the Crows (1885) by I. G. N. Keith-Falconer, M.A. (pp. 151-52): The crow. The whole camp of the owls with their king dwell in such-and-such a place by day, and at night they have a certain great hole into which they all enter. Therefore command all the crows that everyone of them bring in his mouth a piece of dry wood, and put it at the entrance of that hole in which they live. And let one of the crows bring a spark of fire and put it in the wood, whereupon let the crows fly aloft that the fire may be fanned and burn the wood well, and if anyone of the owls come out, the fire will burn him, and if he remain inside he will die of the heat and the breath of the fire and the fumes of the smoke.