Twentieth-century paleontologists have fallen into the bad habit of reconstructing the dinosaurs' life functions by using crocodiles as a living model. But the earliest researchers of the nineteenth century proved beyond a doubt that the dinosaurs' powerful hind limbs must have operated like the limbs of gigantic birds.
No one, either in the nineteenth century or the twentieth, has ever built a persuasive case proving that dinosaurs as a whole were more like reptilian crocodiles than warm-blooded birds. No one has done this because it can't be done.
I don't much care about tea-drinking in the afternoon; in the morning the stuff Jock brings to me in bed is like that Nepenthe which the wife of Thone gave to Jove-born Helena, but in the p. m. it always makes me think of Ganges mud in which crocodiles have been coupling.
Les crocodiles ne suivent pas les enterrements, ne sachant pas pleurer.
A vingt et un ans, j'avais beau espérer que le mariage serait ma haie contre la tentation du sexe et de la pornographie, il était clair qu'il me fallait bien plus que ça : des remparts entourés de douves, si possible avec une bande de crocodiles dedans.
Tu ne disparaîtras jamais du Show-biz. Personne ne se risque dans une eau infectée de crocodiles si ce n'est un autre crocodile. Et toi, tu as une bouche à croquer de l'acier.
