"A young Falkland Islander walking along a beach and spying a dead dogfish and going to work on it with his jackknife has, in a fashion wholly unprovided in modern educational theory, a great advantage over the Scarsdale high-school pupil who finds the dogfish on his laboratory desk."

Learn more about

• Percy and his work:
  http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/percy/index.html
• Nature/Culture:
  http://www.southwestern.edu/~bednarb/snapshotsemiotics/deconstructing.htm
• The symbolic complex in action:
  http://www.salon.com/wlust/feature/1999/02/10feature.html