Thal he
was enthralled
if one wasnt keen of hominin evolution
Thal
is in reference to Neanderthals who he believes may possibly have been victims
of humanitys first genocide fortythousand years ago at the hands of Homo
Sapiens Sapiens
there was once seven species worldwide
now only us
who are apparently dandies bent on eliminating ourselves before some thing else gets us
thereby the proverbial clean sweep hit
job
as
enormous dinosaurs in lockstep went out the EXTINCTION door sixtysixsixtyfive
million years ago pterosaurs like modern owls had antiperistalsis puked indigestible materials fringed in pycnofibers hair-like feathers also exited after sharing
the skies with wholesale feathered avians providing niches the impetus the impetuous evolutionary rise of fish lungfish
small mammalian creatures hominins
he read in Rachel Kushners
sensational fiction Creation Lake of Thals tendency to anhedonic living-in-grayscale
brooding
how could anyone possibly know that
or a matter of creative license
Oh
Marmion Sir Walter Scott Oh, what a tangled web we weave, / When first
we practice to deceive . . . had he his
druthers he misplaced them
he would have said the tales we weave
when we seek to deceive
he was a lousy liar
and because
of that he hung his children out to dry when they tried to lie
it was their job
his job
anhedonic brooding was alien to him
he was somewhat a hedonist who liked spicing things up with pain
1824, Tuesday,
10 3. 26
https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution/Theories-of-bipedalism