Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

Defiance through compliance.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.