"Fish and Fetish"‪.‬

Trying to control things that remain so stubbornly outside our influence continues to animate human belief, as it has since our ancestors erected their monoliths and appealed to the animals they hunted. In the world's most desperately poor regions, investing so much hope and fear in the unseen world may seem particularly futile and destructive. But then how many people in the developed world even notice that our skyscrapers so rarely designate a thirteenth floor? **********