And thereby hangs a tale
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pjthompsonRandom quote of the day:
"We all used to have a tail, you know. Not a collective one, you understand, but we still have a jut of bone at the base of our spine called the coccyx, and that is the vestigial remnant of our tails. You still have this jut of bone; don't look now, but take it as we must so much on faith. To simplify just a little bit, what happened is this: somewhere along the line in the evolutionary process, our tails fell off and we grew art."
—Edward Albee, "Humans: the artsy animals," Los Angeles Times Op/Ed, May 30, 2006, reprinted and excerpted from the Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield Foundation Address
(You can read the entire Op/Ed piece here—if you don't mind em dashes reading as question marks.)
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
"We all used to have a tail, you know. Not a collective one, you understand, but we still have a jut of bone at the base of our spine called the coccyx, and that is the vestigial remnant of our tails. You still have this jut of bone; don't look now, but take it as we must so much on faith. To simplify just a little bit, what happened is this: somewhere along the line in the evolutionary process, our tails fell off and we grew art."
—Edward Albee, "Humans: the artsy animals," Los Angeles Times Op/Ed, May 30, 2006, reprinted and excerpted from the Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield Foundation Address
(You can read the entire Op/Ed piece here—if you don't mind em dashes reading as question marks.)
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.