The Beginning

excerpt from the book..In the purely cerebral sense, there was no particular point-of-sequenceat which Gral could have been said to Know. The very causality of hisexistence was a succession of brute obedience to brute awareness, for itwas only thus that one survived. There was the _danger-sense_ onthose days when the great-toothed cats roamed the valley, and themales-who-will-bring remained huddled and sullen in the caves above thegreat ledge; there was the _hunger-sense_ when provender was low,