"One day someone ought to write a general theory of incubation in order to allow the word to fully germinate.  (Let's compare: a tempest is incubated, and so is fear, dawn, laughter, voyeurism, the world, grammar, love, the absurd, a revolution, a treaty, alfalfa, different kinds of killings, a game of billiards, itchiness, a nightmare, humiliation, and, of course, the egg.)" —Hugo Hiriart, "About the Egg," Hurricanes and Carnivals