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...quite so sentimental as a 200-lb. ex-sportswriter (a type who can weep real tears over a carload of redundant wrestlers). Gallico's cat Thomasina should go down in literary history as an outstanding example of the pathetic fallacy, i.e., the attribution of human emotions to nonhuman objects. There are whole libraries of books that follow the fallacy like blind bird dogs-books about elephants, Teddy bears, toads, and even, in one notorious case (E. B. White's Stuart Little), mice. In the present case, the Gallico Cat ("Who Thought She Was God," according to the book...
...other Air Force scientists must hurry too; every new weapon project calls for materials and components of higher and higher performance. Human nerves and senses and brains must be better understood, and nonhuman brains (computing devices) with greater intelligence must be constructed. Ideas of promise must be exploited, and new ideas must be extracted from both gadgetmakers and theoretical scientists. There is no rest in the fight for air power, and no end in sight...
...dusty desert to the east of the Organ Mountains is sown with nonhuman eyes: radars, telescopic cameras, instruments to measure the missile's enormous speed. Housed in small concrete buildings or perched on platforms, they cover the whole range, which is roughly 40 miles wide and 100 miles long. Roosting on high mountains are astronomical telescopes with 16-inch mirrors that can photograph the missile like a planet in space...