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May. 4th, 2007 03:12 pmYes, I succumbed. And do you know what that Myers-Briggs/Animal Farm mashup thinks I need? A chimpanzee. A female chimpanzee named Kyana. I have never been so certain that I do not need a chimpanzee companion in my life. I would have been happier with a gefilte fish.
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Date: 2007-05-07 01:44 am (UTC)Gefilte at least has some kind of dignity , lent to it by tradition, and chimpanzees have understanding of metaphor (though not social learning, as Tomasello informs us - and he should know).
One day there must come a fantasy writer whose protagonist will have Gefilte for a daemon. Will it be the same gefilte, I wonder, consumed but miraculously remade every day like the pig Slíðrugtanni of Norse mythology? Or will the fish stay the same, slightly smelly but faithful unto the end? No doubt, the arch-villain's daemon will be Lard with Garlic.