Seagulls were said in European lore to have been the last remnants of a once great angelic race, ever in decline since the resurrection of Jesus and the rise of a great church. (I’m not making this up.) Some became infantile cherubim; others, gulls feeding upon flotsam and locust, and the state bird of Utah. Some say God is a bureaucrat, but others suggest he is more like a very clever poet.
