#septarium

In some exceptionally large specimens the cracks seem to radiate from two adjacent centers. The wide­ meshed webs approach one another without overlap­ ping, explore one another without joining, brush like antennae, like anxious or voluptuous feelers. It is as if the two systems were really conscious organisms trying to get to know one another by cautious touches. They are still only diagrams, closer to the blueprint than to life, but their polarized substance seems to stir. They might be two ameobas about to fight or mate, but because they are frail, perhaps sol­ ulble, they feel the need to get acquainted first, though they fear the first contact may prove to be corrosive.