It Is Because Of His Brain That

The Dodo Never Had A Chance. He Seems To Have Been Invented For The Sole Purpose Of Becoming Extinct And That Was All He Was Good For.

As Darwin Puts It In The Descent Of Man, 'male Snakes, Though Appearing So Sluggish, Are Amorous.' Isn't That Just Like Darwin? It Was One Of His Main Ideas, You Know, That The Males Of Almost All Animals Have Stronger Passions Than The Females. Since Then We've Learned A Thing Or Two. At Any Rate, The Female Snake Is Right There When Spring Arrives In The Woods.

[footnote:] Pliny The Elder Described A Whale Called "balaena Or Whirlpool, Which Is So Long And Broad As To Take Up More In Length And Breadth Than Two Acres Of Ground." This Brings Up Again The Old Question: Are The Classics Doomed? Our Ancestors Believed That Four Years Of This Sort Of Information Would Inevitably Produce A President, Or At Least A Cabinet Member. It Didn't Seem To Work Out That Way.

A Hermit Is Simply A Person To Whom Civilization Has Failed To Adjust Itself.

Pliny The Elder Perished In 79 A.d. When He Refused To Flee From The Great Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius, Insisting That Everything Would Be All Right. It Wasn't.