The human as animal sniffs at piles of feces just as an animal would , yet this sniffing is like a ``prayer . Perhaps Babstock is suggesting that an animal acting according to its instinctive nature is the equivalent of a human being praying . Both animal and human seek to commune with their creator , whether I be 'Nature ' or `God . Here the ambivalence and ambiguity that Babstock shows towards the human-natural divide appears . The humans and animals are similar in their need...











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