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Rex and Tops
Quixote was perched atop
Rex,
Beside him,
Sancho sat his saddle
On Tops.
Jesus is a Temperature
Some potion it is
Everyday
Unnoticed
Until another potion
Comes along called
Flu!
And we are made
To inventory every touch
Every color
Every sound
Like a long restaurant menu
In foreign words
Painful to read aloud,
Our stomachs being now all ears.
"Hey 98.6,
It's good to have you back again."
Hunger
After three years
Of the grim clouds
The stars were out,
And the high distant peak
Of Volcano Never out gassing,
Throwing out rocks, debris,
Red and orange lava,
In billowing black clouds.
By the light of the full moon,
The Nautilus' crew
Offloaded supplies and gear
On the long narrow dock
Where Nemo's caravan
Was assembling.
Two sanguine figures
Waited astride their mounts
Where the dock met the shore.
"Quixote!" Petra said in greeting.
Quixote saluted back
From his saddle astride
The biped's neck.
Petra gave the biped's
Great clawed feet a wary distance.
Beside Quixote was Sancho
Astride his quadruped
Saddled behind the bony
Shield flare and its horns.
"Sancho!" said Petra.
Sancho saluted.
Petra grew bold
And put her hand to
The bipeds leg joint,
Feeling the feathers' softness.
The biped lowered its toothy head
To see her,
Quixote keeping his balance.
"Can you talk?" Petra asked the biped.
She reached and touched its
Lowered cheek, Quixote holding on.
"Oh!" Petra said in surprise,
And knew in a moment
All the biped was knowing and feeling.
"Two become one!"
She said to Quixote.
"Just so." said Quixote
"He's hungry." Petra said.
"They're all hungry." said Quixote.
DolphinWords
Notes: Rex and Tops...Lost World dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops...reference the visit to the Natural History Museum...and news story yesterday...
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Mr Baron's new family tree has similarities to ideas developed by the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley in 1870. He believed, correctly as it turns out, that birds descended from meat-eating dinosaurs and he included them then with the bird-hipped dinosaurs in a group he named Ornithoscelida, or bird-limbed.
At the time Huxley's ideas were roundly dismissed and eclipsed by Seeley's.
As an acknowledgement of Huxley's contribution, the team has revived the name of Ornithoscelida for his new combined group.
As well as being a remarkable piece of research in itself, the work is a vignette of the scientific process itself - how challenging old, well-established ideas with a fresh eye is always worthwhile and can often bring new insights.
Major shake-up suggests dinosaurs may have 'UK origin'
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News
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Dragons all have names in the old lore...and they're not scientific ones!...so to go exploring in Lost World lore was a problem for names and descriptions, insomuch everything is scientific nomenclature...oh, sometimes in the news you hear nicknames for dinosaurs discovered, like 'Sue' for a T. Rex found...that little dilemma of names and descriptions I began exploring with Rex and Tops, and that little poem, a 'thumbnail sketch' poem, sat alone for progress on my iphone notepad for weeks while I contemplated back and forth--back and forth from ideas to just being woeful with the flu!...hence Jesus Is A Temperature...and no sooner than the flu subsided than something I ate was disagreeable, and no progress!...the poem commemorating the flu resided alone beside Rex and Tops on the iphone notepad for a long while too...I just couldn't arouse my thoughts to poke words...writers are a fragile lot, I gather, as even small things like flu can throw them off their game..."Hey 98.6" is a famous song...that I was able to foray out to see STG (Shiny Toy Guns) a second time was kind of miraculous...on that day, I left later, and took the same route, and it was a reiteration, and I want to do that up...I have this fascination with reiterations, one of the things that compelled me to so doggedly pursue the critters in the Valley!...for sometime...there were some other forays, MidnightMovies!...Logan, The Great Wall, Skull Island...I was ranging for Lost World takes...spinning a yarn--yarn spinners, have always borrowed from one another...and I've been looking into old Lost World literature lore, mostly on the web, but came home from the library with a collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories, and an Andre Norton time travel tale, which I'm finding a rough slog...time was I could read science fiction like eating cheetoes, but that genre, like comic books, which, yes, I know, are as adult as anything, just don't latch on to me at my age...rather it seems, now, I read off the web in short 'vignettes'...and the subjects so unrelated it would seem that I'm in the pursuit of a kind of nonsense!...hmmph...oh, and from amazon, I rented the Dunwich Horror1970... The Mountains of Madness, another tale by Lovecraft, is an off and on again project of a Hollywood producer, who seems to have set it aside because the Alien movie series Prometheus borrows heavily from the Lovecraft tale...I saw Prometheus...reference earlier MidnightMovie post...and it's true...it lifts from Lovecraft...the heavy lift is the notion that humanity is a genetic creation of an alien star traveling race, and another lift is that there is an alien monstrous race that lurks in the unknown unknown...which is somehow picked up in both Skull Island and The Great Wall...a conflict in Logan too...there are some sorts of lifts that occur just natural...myself, for years, could only think of one possible science fiction yarn to spin, based on a simple biological thing...fish grew legs to walk on land, birds grew wings to fly, might not some creature learn to travel in outer space, in the self same organic fashion...I kind of nurture the thought that organic life forms can exist, and travel, in outer space...there is some question as to where all the carbon is from on asteroids and such...brb...the Panspermia notion has some of this...and in my one speculative yarn I imagined the creatures that went into space to be Dragons, and they left the Earth, but not for good, because like sea turtles having to return to land to lay their eggs, these Dragons, now and then, have to return to Earth to reproduce...apparently Lovecraft turned this notion over in the Mountains of Madness, as the aliens he describes have wings of sorts that enable them to travel in Space...I may have read this when I was a kid...the story originally printed in Astounding, and likely afterwards put into collections, it's novella length, where I may have come across it...since its publication, 1938, it has been much lifted from, or its notions arrived at through parallel fantasy writers' evolution!...Lovecraft lifted from Poe's Pym, as did Melville and Verne...there is much back and forth on these lifts by the scholars, who are remarkably erudite about the tales...and having looked to old lore for handholds in the Lost World of 150 million years ago, I find myself in a morass!...an epic needs to include tales of the earliest times!...what to do what to do...while one has the flu...so, Mt. Etna erupted in Italy, one place to set a paw on the rock wall, and there is a terrible famine on the horizon in Africa, a place for a foot, and there was 'Rex and Top' where I had the other foot...'always have three points'...no, I'm not a rock climber, but on hikes on occasion encountered steep 'up's...oh, just watched a youtube clip of climbers descending into Mt. Erubus in Antarctica...curious to find how old volcanos, active or dormant, can be, I find they are not that old, at least not 150 million years, though there is one that old under the Pacific Ocean, and its huge...and I'm wondering if it might be from the rebound of the meteor that stuck Yucatan and imperiled the dinosaurs...which takes me to look up just how long the sky was grim clouded after that collision!...brb...oh, a list of all the notable craters...
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Geophysical models and high-precision radiometric dating suggest that the Chicxulub impact could have triggered some of the largest Deccan eruptions, and potentially could have triggered eruptions at active volcanoes anywhere on Earth.[138][139]
hmmph...Chicxulub was 66 million years ago, not 150 million, though that big volcano is 145 million...
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The name Tamu is taken from the initials of Texas A&M University,[11] where William Sager, a geology professor at the University of Houston and one of the lead scientists studying the volcano, previously taught. Massif, which means "massive" in French, is a large mountain or a section of the planet's crust that is demarcated by faults and flexures.
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hmmph...such are names...one shouldn't be too fond of holding on to them too tight!...
:)
DavidDavid
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