"...Man is a strange animal when he seeks to attract the attention of the Gods, and has tried everything (except, possibly, praying in pig-Latin while standing on his head) to convince them that his plight is terrible and merits their urgent attention. ....Little children do equally peculiar things to attract their earthly father's attention for a while." - pg 261, Sex and Drugs, Robert Anton Wilson
Isn't it, though? I LOVE 'R.A.W.', he has such great wit. (And that explains out 'Nuclear Race Towards Destruction' - a subconcious hope that Someone or Something will intervene...