it is "within" the "discipline" of animation studies and around the "nutty" figure of the animatic that such thinkers of the universe, such nutty professors, and such faculties might find points of contact, points rich in import and implication. So, for us, as my Introduction to THE ILLUSION OF LIFE proposes, animation engages processes, disciplines, knowledges, discourses, and institutions across the spectrum, across all the faculties, across arts, the humanities, the social and the natural sciences, including philosophy, from the Pre-Socratics on. And I would add: animation studies needs to engage with all of them, for all of them for me "engage with" animation. II. The Quantum Looniverse In my "The Illusion of The Beginning" essay, I wrote, with some clarifying additions and alterations placed in brackets here: The beginning in the word in the New Testament would be subject to the logics of the graph as writing, as the beginning in the dividing line in the Old Testament would be subject to the logics of the graph as drawing. The dividing line is inscribed in Genesis : God draws the line, dividing the light from the dark, the day from the night -- but what then is the crepuscular, the twilight time of dawn and dusk? -- and divides the land from the sea -- but what then is the littoral [the space between land and sea -- the shore, the beach]? [See the end of my " Who Framed Roger Rabbit" essay on this. 14 ] As with