Sources: Achate, Bilder im Stein / Josef Arnoth, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel Buchverlag, Bild der Wissenschaft 12, Dezember 1971, DVA StuttgartBasler Zeitung, Birkhäuser...

My father believed the sea to be covetous: a pleading dog that would lap at you adoringly, sidling up...

The apology had been the most charged and contested gesture between us, the common element in arguments whose subjects...