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...scientists were in danger last week of losing their heads, as had the ancient Chinese court astronomers Hsi and Ho for failing to predict the imminence of a solar eclipse. No one in the U.S. shot arrows into the sky, as Peruvian Indians often did to frighten away the beast devouring the sun. No one even thought, as had the Tahitians, that the sudden darkness meant that the sun and the moon were engaged in celestial copulation. Nor in a smog-ridden society did the midday blackness even seem all that strange...
...Milner argues that laughter restores man's balance on his precarious tightrope trip through life. "Man is doomed," he writes, "to be a product of culture, but not to be wholly cultural; and to be a product of nature, but not to be wholly natural." Half civilized, half beast, man struggles endlessly to harmonize the conflicting poles of his being. Pulled too far in either direction, he instinctively recognizes the danger and laughs out of embarrassment and relief...
...offered by Baako's blind 80-year-old grandmother. If she had not given up trying to see order and direction in the world, she explains, she would have added to the pain of her blindness by going mad. "Do I not remember how like a captured beast I was," she says, "when I had not understood that I could understand no more...
...CURIOUS Beast might have been a Chimera, Except that the Head and skinny Neck, and great, drooping Tail of a Cock, were affixed to the Body of an Ass. Flopping at either Flank was a huge, Sludge-colored Wing, from the Tip of each of which grew a small Talon, causing great Mystery. Each hoof was a giant Talon grappling the Floor...
...finger always in the dike, somewhere a decorous pinky floating over your inexorably cooling cup of tea, and you didn't feel your viscera, sagging with disuse and un-excitement, sighing into atrophy. You lost your sense of where love was and might have been, inside your insides. The beast in the jungle, at last. You don't even love yourself, so you have to prove that it was inevitable, that yours is the human condition. by making sure that it happens...