What to do with all the physical events, with “history,” as academics like to say? (As if they know how that works.) These were not just dreams or internal altered states. These were very physical and often literally entomological events. The praying mantis insects, for example, began showing up at key moments to and around very specific individuals, including a number of artists (a producer, a director, a cinematographer, and a line editor, who had terminal cancer and would soon die) working on a trilogy of films—a trilogy, by the way, that Davis firmly believes that he wrote out of the
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