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So, this is Ambrose's conception that we see the preamble to.
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And in "Ambrose His Mark," if you look on page 19,
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you will see that Ambrose has, in some sense,
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inherited some aspect of that sperm's remarkable linguistic facility.
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He says: "All that winter"
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This is the middle of the page: All that winter,
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as I grew in mother's womb, grandfather fretted with his scheme
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[to get Willie Erdmann's bees];
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when the spring's first bees
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appeared on our pussy willows, on our alder catkins, he was off
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with Hector and Konrad,
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saucepan and cheesecloth.