----- Original Message ----- From: "Robison Michael R CNIN"
<
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca>
> Al Guthrie mentions a really weird title:
> BOILING A FROG
>
> **********
> Good God! That's a name for a book? That's
just...
> twisted! I like it.
Here's the author's note:
"Amphibians are poikilothermic: their body temperatures adapt
automatically to changes in their environment, without their
noticing. Theoretically, this means that if you were to put a
frog in a pan of cold water, then turn up the heat gradually
enough, you could cook the poor creature to death before it
realised it was in danger. NB: The title of this novel is a
metaphor, not a recipe. The author is not in any way
advocating or condoning the boiling of frogs. Not if there's
a perfectly healthy cat available, anyway."
Al
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 16 Sep 2002 EDT