That is, they are presumably in there somewhere, but they have Retreated Into Their Shell and are Not Coming Out.

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest:

• Karen Armstrong on the myth of religious violence (circa 2014)
  
• A camel through the eye of a needle, and other wild tales of translation
  
• Mount Taranaki (Aotearoa) has been granted 'living person' status
  
• Brutalist cuckoo clocks ("Cuckoo Blocks")
  
• Book and the Dragon: a tiny nine-page comic about queers and libraries and dragons (silveradept, I thought particularly of you)