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Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)
They're gay Slytherins. Beware.
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.
Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.
beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.
triangle of my mons,
I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.
Luke used to give me butterflies. Noah spawned mutant pterodactyls.
Call me Silidons, for such I am.
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.
It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.
Hast thou, then, nothing more to mention? Com'st ever, thus, with ill intention? Find'st nothing right on earth, eternally? MEPHISTOPHELES No, Lord! I find things, there, still bad as they can be. Man's misery even to pity moves my nature; I've scarce the heart to plague the wretched creature.
These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron)
What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII.
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
The venal herd.
[Lat., Venale pecus.]
There once lived a family that had three sons. The oldest one was called Ram, the middle one Goat, and the youngest brother was named Phillip.
Cruelty and compassion come with the chromosomes
Carrowicus much drunkicus or Hot-assicus in my greedy handsicus.
I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
voluptuous sluggard,
Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the two sexes. They assume sculpted forms like naked models of seduction ... but they feel no shame.
Beta Male gene has survived not by meeting and overcoming adversity, but by anticipating and avoiding it.
My fingers are mated into a mirrored series of what manifests, to me, as the letter X.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
Saturnine, with thin arched brows above large eyes as black and
A metamorphosis ... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.
You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart,
I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.
Thou wretched pillar of syphilitic pheasant-fuck!
LYSISTRATA May gentle Love and the sweet Cyprian Queen shower seductive charms on our bosoms and all our person. If only we may stir so amorous a feeling among the men that they stand firm as sticks, we shall indeed deserve the name of peace-makers among the Greeks.
Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: Straight Greek eyebrows. They start at the hairline at my temple and, left unchecked, will grow straight across my face and onto yours.
Amphibians - the word comes from the Greek meaning 'double life.
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.
The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes ...
Philo of Alexandria,
Aristophanes says we were all four-legged creatures to start, some the same sex, but most half man and half woman. Zeus was afraid us humans would get too powerful so he sliced us right down the middle, and everybody spends their life looking for the matching piece.
My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day
to you, thief of fire, I speak.
I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.
[Asiaticus responds] Ask your sons, Suillius. They will testify to my masculinity.
He called it a ptero-dactyle, meaning 'wing-fingered.
Aphrodite was born out of the primal murder of Uranus.
wrong: Penthesilea is
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
morois are born..but strigois are made..!
[The Devil] Mephistopheles, when he comes to Faust, testifies of himself that he desires evil, yet does only good. Well, let him do as he likes, it's quite the opposite with me. I am perhaps the only man in all of nature who loves the truth and sincerely desires good.
If I had to describe myself in one word, 'Hercules.'
Eccentricities of genius.
Brutal abnormalities - Hellish, grotesque monstrosities Who made us fall, one and all. They beat us black and blue - And too Their Fathers showed us things, Inhuman things - Forbidden things!
Cheers to strong genes.
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
Homo Cannot Erectus
SCORPIUS: Always.
The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.
With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power.
What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!
There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.
A deep map is a sample swatch of the multiple manifestations of the genius loci.
In some very rare cases, an opposite-sex pair was born, and they always mated one another. Disturbing as it might sound, when it did happen, the offspring were invariably gifted. Sera and Trace's sons were noted psych-scientists.
What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ.
"Sonovabitch."
"To his face?" she asked.
"I never see his face."
"He wears a mask?"
"In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.
The gene," Dr. Narcejac-Boileau said, "is associated with social dominance and strong control over other people. We have isolated it in sports leaders, CEOs, and heads of state. We believe the gene is found in all dictators throughout history.
Wilder, Amos. Theopoetic. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976.
CHAPTER TWO In Which Inventors Have Powerful Dimples Imogene
I can have an androgynous quality.
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
[Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
Genius and insanity are fraternal twins.
Some fifteen to twenty Burgess species cannot be allied with any known group, and should probably be classified as separate phyla. Magnify some of them beyond the few centimeters of their actual size, and you are on the set of a science-fiction film ...
Two million years ago, genetic mutations resulted in the appearance of a new human species called Homo erectus.
It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.
If the hero is not a person, the emblem
Of him, even if Xenophon, seems
To stand taller than a person stands, has
A wider brow, large and less human
Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body
Of a primitive.
A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.
These daughters of Zeus and Themis were: Eirene: The personification of peace Eunomia: The personification of law and order Dike: The personification of justice
GENES
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14. Finally, the last characteristic of the menippea: its concern with current and topical issues. This is, in its own way, the "journalistic" genre of antiquity, acutely echoing the ideological issues of the day.
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.
Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.
Genes are not destiny!
It is a Law of Nature with us that a male child shall have one more side than his father, so that each generation shall rise (as a rule) one step in the scale of development and nobility. Thus the son of a Square is a Pentagon; the son of a Pentagon, a Hexagon; and so on.
I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.
a mutation in that strain might have made it especially aggressive, efficient, transmissible, and fierce.
Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.
Some few of my brothers had walked among humans and dared to love human women. These Nephilim loved fiercely and deeply. It seemed to me they had been struck with a sickness, or taken prisoner, and I dared to pity them. How sad, I thought, to Fall because of love. Until it happened to me.
A half-blood of the eldest dogs...
An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.
Christians who like to write might do as a description of the genus. But the actual species shared more precise characteristics, including intellectual vivacity, love of death, conservative politics, memories of war, and a passion for beef, beer, and verbal battle.
THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!!
They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ancient world : they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks - sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat.
My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way..
As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind ...
Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.
This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.
Thank you - for all your compliments about the general badassery of my family's DNA.
Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!