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TorgoX on 2006-08-11T23:43:56

Dear Log,

«[...] So if you still like to pause to appreciate the action of phlogiston [] when you strike a match, you may well be okay with current events. So many, God help us, evidently are.»
--William Gibson

See also: two apes holding up a modern Cavendish-variety banana -- the most absurdly hybridized plant in ethnobotanical history -- and attributing its varietal features to the providence of Jezeus, when he created the world from nothing, six thousand years ago.

What will future Panglosses attribute to Big Daddeh Inna Sky's ancient foresight-- toothpaste? headphones? the hep-A vaccine? Cheez Whiz?