I am bipedal and a member of the kingdom animalia, phylum chordata, class mammalia, order primates,family hominidae, genus homo, and species sapien! [1]
I have more bacterial cells than my animal cells and thus I consider myself a moving scaffold for bacterial colonies. [2]
12 or so billion years ago the hydrogen atoms that make up my water molecules were forged in the Big Bang or some such cosmic episode...
it's a complex mathematical metaphor that does not translate well to everyday human languages.[3]
The universe is stranger than you can imagine but Shakespeare beat me to this and more unfortunate it has become a cliché:
Horatio:
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
Hamlet:
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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1. http://anthro.palomar.edu/animal/table_humans.htm
2. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080603085914.htm
3. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/16-is-the-universe-actually-made-of-math#.UOBmwqywUzQ
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A study in failure
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This is an outline for an idea for a short story.
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Billy Blesser Fell Down
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This is a comedy about a born again fundamentalist minister. Billy Blesser runs a Christian time share amusem...
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This tale draws upon Oepidus Rex for inspiration. Four magic pennies in the background move the story forward.