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...Gerald Durrell can help it. The zoologist has long maintained a sanctuary for endangered species on the English Channel Island of Jersey and has scoured the world to collect threatened birds, mammals and reptiles. In his latest book, he wittily describes his efforts to help the nonhuman population of Mauritius and neighboring islands. Durrell's adventures have an engaging lunacy that relieves their underlying tension. He and his party risked bites from golden fruit bats that objected to the indignity of having their private parts probed so their would-be saviors could ascertain their sex. They suffered seasickness...
...wonder that huge numbers of America's blacks spend countless hours developing and fine-tuning skills that they hope will place them in those elite groups? As to the alleged natural superiority of black athletes, it appears to me to be one more attempt at categorizing blacks as nonhuman. Frankly, it would be a more convincing argument if those long hours dedicated to sports by young blacks produced anything less than a disproportionate share of black athletes...
...have a rather unclear and not very dignified relation to technology. We put hope in the machine and then get frustrated when it deceives us. How the artist in particular looks upon technology is very important-because it is the freest, the most human way of looking at a nonhuman object. Perhaps the artist will show us the way to a better relationship...
...strongly the opinion that Paul Tillich and religious liberals like him were traitors in the theological camp because they were trying to humanize something that is essentially nonhuman. They were trying to make Christianity less than a scandal, as Kierkegaard called it. Well, it is a scandal; it's obviously a scandal because our life is a scandal...
...MIND OF THE DOLPHIN: A NONHUMAN INTELLIGENCE by John Cunningham Lilly, M.D. 310 pages. Doubleday...