I just enjoyed this in my pajamas with some very hot tea and fig preserves. I can't think of a better way to kick off the weekend. So many great lines as usual, but these two in particular did it for me:
If it weren't for the fact that human civilization had produced 'Hamlet' Alex would have been positive that the bonobos had the better deal.
Probably there was no such thing as a partner like Scully; there was only Scully, anomalous and irreproducible (which was not the same as barren, except to the extent that it was).
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Date: 2009-01-02 02:54 pm (UTC)If it weren't for the fact that human civilization had produced 'Hamlet' Alex would have been positive that the bonobos had the better deal.
Probably there was no such thing as a partner like Scully; there was only Scully, anomalous and irreproducible (which was not the same as barren, except to the extent that it was).
Fabulous.