Saturday, August 20, 2005
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Some more thoughts on my time in England:
To hold the type skull of Dicynodon, the first therapsid ever described, the same skull held by Sir Richard Owen in 1840, in my own hands--it's a nearly religious experience. You don't carry such an object...you cradle it.
Walking along the streets in Kensington I heard a group of little kids talking about Daleks. Not an odd thing for me to hear, but odd to hear it from perfctly normal sprats. In the U.S., that's talk reserved for geeks of a certain age.
Some more thoughts on my time in England:
To hold the type skull of Dicynodon, the first therapsid ever described, the same skull held by Sir Richard Owen in 1840, in my own hands--it's a nearly religious experience. You don't carry such an object...you cradle it.
Walking along the streets in Kensington I heard a group of little kids talking about Daleks. Not an odd thing for me to hear, but odd to hear it from perfctly normal sprats. In the U.S., that's talk reserved for geeks of a certain age.
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