Editorial

Abstract

Lucidity, the flame of knowledge, the owl of Athena, are concepts generally assumed without the slightest idea of the difficulty involved in obtaining them. The fire that Prometheus stole, to a good observer, was an ominous gift to human civilization, for while the titan experienced infinite punishment, the glow of knowledge also condemned men of small and erratic morals. And yet, here we scholars persist, against all odds, with the hard and sometimes painful work of inquiry, scribbling notes in the folds of field notebooks, adding webs to the marker bar, with a nonconformist spirit, hiding with our noses among the books.