Orangutans Teach Us That Looks Are Not

I Do Not Travel. I Am Not Much Of An Extrovert, And I'm Not Much Interested In Extroverted Objects. I Do Not Care For The 'ideas' Of Novelists. Novels Are Wonderful, Of Course, But I Prefer Newspapers.

[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.

Humor Springs From Rage, Hay Fever, Overdue Rent And Miscellaneous Hell.

Aristotle Maintains That The Neck Of The Lion Is Composed Of A Single Bone. Aristotle Knew Nothing At All About Lions, A Circumstance Which Did Not Prevent Him From Writing A Good Deal On The Subject.

If A Cat Does Something, We Call It Instinct; If We Do The Same Thing, For The Same Reason, We Call It Intelligence.