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To: Monkey Face

No, my son encountered it on the interwebs some years back and lost it. He just found it this morning and let me know (I’d asked him to do so when he did), and I promptly posted it for the Undead to appreciate.

We both think the story is a little different than the original version in that originally the cycles included being all living things, not just humans...


1,054 posted on 01/12/2014 9:27:02 AM PST by null and void (It is as if they all had one head. Too bad they don't all have one neck.)
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"We both think the story is a little different than the original version in that originally the cycles included being all living things, not just humans..."

When you consider the overlap between the almost human animals we know, our pets and those which demonstrate great cleverness and self-reliance, and those who are considered undeniably human but lack some of the characteristics we associate with normal thinking, it's hard to conclude that there is a hard and fast dividing line between them.

Add to that, we are going to eventually realize or admit that some of our cetacean or simian friends are not only close enough, but actually in the same category with us, or we may discover evidence for intelligent life elsewhere in our perusal of the universe, and it becomes clear that such a story would have to include every possibility which would allow growth and progress.

Your assignment, Mr. Phelps, is to diagram the above sentences.

1,055 posted on 01/12/2014 9:47:44 AM PST by NicknamedBob (My cleverness often has to be severely constrained in order to fit in a tagl)
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