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I feel the need to quote Neil Gaiman today.

Picked up my copy of New Scientist over breakfast this morning (which, along with Fortean Times, is my favourite publication) and found myself puzzling over an article that began

That a complex mind is required for religion may explain why faith is unique to humans.

Which left me amazed and potentially delighted that journalists at New Scientist had succeeded in interspecies communication to the point of being certain that dolphins and whales have no belief in things deeper than themselves, that ants do not imagine a supreme colony at the centre of everything, and that my cats only believe in what they can see, smell, hunt and rub up against (except for Pod, of course, who when much younger would react in horror, with full fur-up, to invisible things), and that there are no Buddhist Pigs, Monkeys or whatever-the-hell Sandy was.

And now I'd like to share a little quote from Mark Twain.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Thus ends my quota of: OH HUMANITY USE YOUR BRAINS for today. Thank you for tuning in.

Well, Mutant Chronicles was a rather beautifully made--filmed, etc--and totally bleak movie, where almost everybody dies. I'm not a fan of these kinds of movies, as those who are familiar with me probably know. Still, I liked Severian, whom Anna Walton played, though she didn't get much screentime. This has, obviously, never stopped my imagination from going wild.

On another unimpressed note: they name Devon Aoki's character Valerie Chinois Duval. Translates as Valerie "Chinese" Duval. First of all, Devon Aoki is part Japanese. Second of all, you all deserve a hard kick in the nuts. (Although I will admit I love saying the word chinois properly pronounced. It sounds so lovely! I don't know. I'm weird.)

Title: apocalypse
Fandom: Mutant Chronicles
Rating: PG13
Characters: Severian (mentions of Brother Samuel)
Summary: These are her constants: Samuel, and her swords, and the end of the world.

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