Winterburd Totum Fauna
The winterburds are sweeping in and donning their snow kissed crowns... They flow in an endless stream. But counting these beings is a difficult task. If one tries to count them as one would cherries or eggs, one soon notices that they cannot be counted that way. When one has reached say three, then there are suddenly a lot more. So counting them is no use; nor is any other form of calculation, for they immediately play tricks on you. Suppose you put two on one side and two on the other in order to say twice makes four. One would be wrong, for through their super-cunning they would appear as seven or eight, making out that two times two makes eight,...