NP: featherless bipeds and whatnot

Markekohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 8 16:55:53 CST 2013


Immediate response: I like it...
Elaborate? That is, fill out? ( or does that lose it?)

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On Feb 8, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just floating a definitional query here. Everybody knows, I assume, about the debate in the Academy that led Diogenes the cynic to offer up plucked a chicken; and I suppose we all pretty much sign on one way or another with Aristotle on the social animal bit; but I'd like to offer a new definition of homo sapiens: Man is the catastrophic animal. Any feedback? Alternately, of course, it might be a good name for a band.



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